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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)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Night Wolf is a French heavy metal band formed in 2019, channeling the spirit of classic heavy metal with raw energy and traditional songcraft.
Nightbane is a heavy/groove metal band from Lubeck on Germany's Baltic coast, formed in 2024. The band brings hard-hitting groove to the historic Hanseatic port city.
Nightbearer is a death metal band from Paderborn in North Rhine-Westphalia, active since 2019. The band delivers punishing death metal from the cathedral city in the Westphalian heartland.
Nightblood is a gothic metal project from St. Gallen, Switzerland, formed in 2025. The project is among the newest entrants in eastern Switzerland's metal scene, channeling dark romanticism through gothic metal.
Nightborn is a thrash metal band from Sweden, active since 2017. The band delivers aggressive Scandinavian thrash metal with relentless energy.
Athens thrash metal outfit formed in 2012, delivering classic-style aggression and speed from the heart of the Greek metal scene. Their relentless riffing channels the energy that has fueled thrash metal since its inception.
Roman black/death metal act formed in 2014, merging the atmospheric intensity of black metal with death metal's guttural extremity from Italy's eternal city. Their fusion channels the darkest impulses of both genres.
Nightchant is a black metal project from Linghem, Sweden, formed in 2022. The project creates dark, ritualistic black metal from the Östergötland region.
Nightchill is a heavy/power metal band from Haninge, Sweden, formed in 2019. The band blends heavy metal weight with power metal melody from the southern suburbs of Stockholm.
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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.