Explore World Metal
Featured Album
Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Grindcore Album
The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
16493 bands found
A three-piece black metal band from Teresina, Piauí, in northeastern Brazil, formed in 2011 and devoted to the rawer, more primitive sound of 1980s black metal. Their 2017 debut album "Cold Embrace" — recorded at Orange Studio — showcases a sound that leans on lo-fi atmosphere, with lyrics inspired by nihilism, 18th-century poetics, and primitive culture. The band features Mephistopheles on guitar, Sadist on drums and vocals, and Poet on bass.
Anthropovore channels black metal from Paris since 2021, their man-eating name signaling a project intent on consuming all that is human. The project adds a misanthropic voice to the French capital's dense black metal community.
Black metal project of unknown origin with three self-numbered EPs since 2018. The Old West name evokes frontier vigilante justice, recontextualized through raw, lawless black metal that refuses to identify its location.
Athens' Anti-Flesh channel misanthropic black metal through compositions designed to strip away the veneer of humanity. Active since 2015, their confrontational name and sound reflect a deeply nihilistic worldview.
Lafayette, Indiana black metal project whose 2012 debut Awaken draws on ancient mysticism from the flatlands of west-central Indiana. The Italian-Latin name — roughly 'ancient secrets' — frames their atmospheric approach to the genre.
Antichrist is a black metal band from Mainz, Germany, formed in 2012, whose sound evolved from an early blend of black and heavy metal into a more extreme black and death metal direction. The band's provocative name and genre evolution reflect a restless pursuit of heavier, more extreme territory within the German underground.
Antichristian Propaganda channels black metal from Moscow since 2017. Their provocatively direct name leaves no ambiguity about the blasphemous intent driving their Russian capital-born compositions.
Antichthon practices black metal from Coimbra since 2021, named after the hypothetical counter-Earth of Pythagorean cosmology. From Portugal's ancient university city, they bring scholarly depth to black metal's dark inquiry.
Antichües practices raw black metal from Petřvald in the Moravian-Silesian Region since 2023. From this former mining town near Ostrava, they craft deliberately primitive black metal with industrial-town hostility.
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.