Explore World Metal
Featured Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
No Cross No Crown (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
118 bands found
Slam and brutal death metal act from Denmark, delivering medically themed, guttural extremity since 2016. Named after a surgical procedure, their clinical precision is applied to the most punishing forms of slam death metal.
Viennese brutal death metal outfit delivering slamming, guttural extremity since 2011. Their uncompromising approach to the genre emphasizes bludgeoning heaviness and technical precision within Vienna's thriving extreme metal community.
Converse, Texas's Esophagus Rot plies slam death metal with the porcine heaviness the subgenre demands — bowel-deep gutturals, caveman-slow breakdowns, and riffs designed to pulverize before they progress. Formed in 2020, the band stakes its claim in San Antonio's surrounding underground with pure, unadorned brutality.
Espermorragia was a goregrind and brutal death metal band from Villa Amelia, Buenos Aires, Argentina, whose lineup included guitarist Mario Vil, drummer Kanamith, and vocalist Seba Grinder. The band released their "Culto Grotesco" EP in 2014, recorded at Villa Amelia Grinder Home Studios, and followed it with a 2015 split release alongside Brazilian band Disformes titled "Sangue Correndo... / Culto Grotesco", issued through Zombie Records.
Los Angeles slam outfit Estrogenized crush with grotesque, bowel-shaking brutality in the tradition of West Coast goregrind excess. Since 2022 they have been a reliable source of chest-caving slams and guttural vocal punishment.
Eternal Necrosys is a brutal death metal one-man project from Belém, Pará, Brazil, created by Ivan Guilherme, with lyrical themes centered on death, gore, depression, and misanthropy. The project has released a prolific run of recordings including "Repugnant Humanity" (2019) and "Homicidal Euphoria" (2021), all tracked at the GoreZone home studio in Belém.
Boonsboro, Maryland's Eternal Ruin has been sharpening a brutal death metal sound since 2022 — relentless double-bass patterns driving riffs designed to flatten everything in their path.
Kingston, Massachusetts gave the world Eternal Suffering in 2017 — a brutal death metal outfit whose dense, churning sound carries the full weight of New England's storied extreme metal lineage.
Punishing Brutal Death Metal out of Texas.
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.