Explore World Metal
Featured Album
Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
1119 bands found
Carnage Valley was a death/black metal band from Belém, Pará, Brazil, documented on Encyclopaedia Metallum as a split-up act. The band was associated with Vampiria Records and focused on themes of destruction and death within the extreme metal underground of northern Brazil.
Death metal band from Antwerp, Belgium, formed in 2020 by members of Battalion, Suhrim, Butcher, and Warbeast Remains. With over twenty years of collective experience, their releases 'Sacrificial Death' and 'Suffering Eternal' deliver death metal played by seasoned veterans.
Black-death metal band from Mannheim, Germany, formed in 2015. They fuse the raw aggression of black metal with the heavy brutality of death metal from the Rhine-Neckar region.
Black-thrash metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2014. They fuse black metal darkness with thrash aggression from the Greek capital.
A raw black metal project from Westchester County channeling the lo-fi, abrasive aesthetic of the USBM underground with primitive production and bleak atmosphere.
A New York City black metal project blending symphonic grandeur with dark, confrontational energy, formed in 2024 with a marriage of orchestral texture and black metal ferocity.
Avant-garde black metal project from Russia, formed in 2020. Carnation Maze pushes black metal into experimental, unconventional territory.
Hungarian black metal project formed in 2021. Carnelian channels raw atmospheric darkness through a blackened lens.
Black-death metal band from Kitee in North Karelia, Finland, active since 2013. They fuse black metal darkness with death metal aggression from the remote Finnish lakeland.
Enter the Inferno
View all threads →Frequently asked questions
World Metal Index indexes hundreds of World heavy metal bands across every subgenre — death metal, black metal, thrash metal, doom metal, metalcore, hardcore punk, grindcore, sludge, stoner metal, and more. Browse heavy metal bands by genre, city, or state.
Yes — browse World death metal bands in our index. Filter by genre to find death metal, technical death metal, and melodic death metal bands. We also index black metal, thrash metal, doom metal, and all heavy metal bands.
Use the genre filter to browse World black metal bands. We index black metal, atmospheric black metal, and related subgenres alongside death metal, thrash metal, doom metal, and all heavy metal bands.
Browse our index for World thrash metal bands. Filter by genre to discover thrash metal, crossover thrash, and speed metal bands. Our index covers all heavy metal bands including death metal, black metal, doom, and metalcore.
Yes — we index metalcore bands, doom metal bands, and every heavy metal subgenre. Browse World metalcore, doom metal, sludge metal, stoner metal, progressive metal, power metal, and more.
Yes — browse World hardcore punk bands alongside heavy metal bands. We cover hardcore punk, crust punk, D-beat, grindcore, metalcore, and all heavy music subgenres.
Filter by city and state to find heavy metal bands near you. Each band page includes streaming links, genre tags, and upcoming metal concerts. Discover death metal, black metal, thrash, doom, and all heavy metal bands in your area.
Visit our shows page for World metal concerts — death metal shows, black metal concerts, thrash metal shows, doom concerts, and all heavy metal events. Updated daily with ticket links from Ticketmaster and SeatGeek.
World Metal Index is an index of World 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 World metal scene.