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Featured Album
Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA "Song To The Siren" by This Mortal Coil (written by Tim Buckley) (2021)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Rehab (24-bit HD Audio, Bonus Tracks Version) (2023)
05/22 @ Yuengling Center, Tampa
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Dutch black metal project active since 2012. Their name, meaning 'raven song,' channels dark, atmospheric black metal.
Ravian is a symphonic power metal band from Moers in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2012. Their releases Kinsmen From Afar and Foreshadowing deliver orchestral, epic power metal from the Lower Rhine region.
Ravine is a progressive thrash/death metal band from Freiberg in Saxony, Germany, active since 2013. The band merges the complexity of progressive metal with the aggression of thrash and death from the historic mining city of the Erzgebirge foothills.
Raving Mad is a power/thrash metal band from Västervik, Sweden, formed in 2017. The band blends the melodic sensibilities of power metal with thrash metal's aggressive edge, forging an energetic dual-genre attack.
Gothic/doom/death metal band from Rome, Italy, active since 2013. Their approach blends three dark metal genres into richly atmospheric music from the Eternal City.
Italian black metal project formed in 2025. The project delivers raw, hostile black metal.
Ravishing is a death/black metal band from Svendborg on the island of Funen in Denmark, active since 2011. The band delivers extreme metal from the scenic southern Danish coastal town.
Ravn is a pagan/stoner metal and rock band from Alençon in Normandy, France, formed in 2020. Named from the Old Norse word for 'raven,' the band blends pagan themes with stoner metal heaviness.
Progressive death/black/sludge metal band from Pomerania, Poland, formed in 2024. Their ambitious four-genre approach pushes extreme metal into progressive territory from the Baltic coast.
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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.