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Featured Album
ManiaCult (2021)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
The Seed of Singularity (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
All Hell's Breaking Loose Down at Little Kathy Wilson's Place - Remastered (2025)
05/24 @ The Waterloo Music Bar, Blackpool
Featured Black Metal Album
Death Doom Punks (2026)
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Inhale is a death metal/metalcore band from Langenfeld, Germany, active since 2000, making them one of the region's longest-running heavy acts bridging extreme metal and metalcore. Over two and a half decades, the band has evolved alongside the German heavy music scene.
Inhaled Screams is a thrash metal band from Donauworth, Germany, formed in 2020, delivering high-speed thrash from the confluence of the Danube and Wornitz rivers in Bavarian Swabia. The band channels classic thrash aggression through a tight, modern approach.
Inhein is a black metal project from Perm, Russia, active since 2017 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Russia black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Atmospheric gothic metal band from Paris, France active since 2003 — over two decades of atmospheric gothic metal from the French capital.
Inherit are a crossover/thrash metal band from London, formed in 2020. They deliver fast, aggressive crossover thrash from the UK capital.
Inherit the Ashes is a melodic death metal band from Zweibrucken, Germany, formed in 2023, building soaring guitar harmonies over crushing death metal foundations. The band represents the Palatinate region's growing melodeath scene.
Inheritage is a brutal death metal band from Panevėžys, Lithuania, active since 2012 and dealing in the most extreme and guttural forms of death metal. The project channels punishing brutality with unrelenting intensity.
Technical death metal band from Paris, France active since 2014. Their sound channels precise, complex death metal from the French capital.
Symphonic metal band from Jyväskylä in central Finland, launched in 2025. Their sound layers orchestral arrangements over heavy metal from the Finnish lakeland.
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European Metal Index is an index of European heavy metal bands — death metal, black metal, thrash metal, doom metal, metalcore, hardcore punk, and all heavy music. Browse bands by genre, find metal concerts near you, and discover the European metal scene.