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Featured Album
Impetus Odi (2021)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Trial By Fire (2023)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Brazen (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Enemy Of God (Remastered) (2024)
05/22 @ The Paramount in concert with Northwell, Huntington
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Galician melodic/pagan black metal act from A Coruna, channeling Celtic and pagan themes through melodic black metal. Their name references the fierce lightning storms of Galicia, reflecting the elemental power of their sound.
Swedish black metal band from Gothenburg, formed in 2024 and channeling fresh hostility from Sweden's metal capital. Their name, meaning 'sly' or 'treacherous,' captures the cunning, deceptive character of their black metal.
Swedish folk metal/rock band from Boliden, active since 2007 and weaving Nordic folk traditions into metal. Their name, meaning 'secret passage,' channels the hidden, mystical character of their folk-inflected approach.
Italian raw black metal/noise project active since 2015, merging lo-fi blackened aggression with harsh noise. Their name, derived from Latin for 'noose,' signals the suffocating, strangling intensity of their sound.
German epic heavy/doom metal band from Chemnitz, formed in 2023 and crafting grandiose, slow-burning compositions. Their sound channels the epic tradition of doom metal through towering riffs and majestic atmosphere.
German project from Dresden that evolved from black metal origins in 2018 into ambient/drone/stoner/doom territory. Their genre-shifting approach spans the full spectrum from extreme metal hostility to meditative, atmospheric heaviness.
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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.