Explore World Metal
Featured Album
Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
Featured Grindcore Album
Apocalypse (2023)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues (2015)
05/31 @ Bourbon Theatre, Lincoln
Browse World Metal Bands
1600 bands found
Haverhill, Massachusetts death metal project. Merrimack Valley extremity from the birthplace of Dustin Pedroia.
Florida death metal and funeral doom project. The Greek word for 'unclean' channels impurity through the Sunshine State's slowest, heaviest sounds.
Black metal project of unknown origin named after the neurological condition of restless agitation. Uncomfortable extremity.
Akatora delivers death metal and deathcore from England since 2024, representing the newest generation of British extreme heaviness. Their enigmatic name suits a project just beginning to define its sonic identity.
Akefal is a black and death metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2019, combining the atmospheric intensity of black metal with death metal's guttural force. The band contributes to Copenhagen's diverse and active extreme metal underground.
Akeldama is a death metal band from Richmond, Virginia. Named after the 'Field of Blood' from biblical tradition, the band has released three recordings between 2011 and 2014, with their full-length "Everything Beautiful" offering a counterpoint to their violent musical approach.
Akem Manah is a doom/death metal band that started in Seattle before relocating to Eugene, Oregon. Named after a Zoroastrian demon of evil intent, the band's 2024 remastered full-length "The Testament of Sealant Mound" delivers crushing doom-death steeped in ancient mythological themes.
Akephalos is a brutal death metal band from Owensboro, Kentucky. Named after the 'headless one' of Greek magical tradition, their 2017 demo "Headless Demon Angel" delivers ten tracks of pummeling brutality from an unexpected corner of the American South.
Akercocke erupted across the UK metal scene in the late 1990s, wielding a fiendishly inventive blend of death, black, and progressive metal while famously performing in suits. Named after a talking monkey in Robert Nye's Faust interpretation, their reunion album "Renaissance in Extremis" proved that London's most intellectually fearsome extreme metal band had lost none of their satanic sophistication.
Enter the Inferno
View all threads →Frequently asked questions
World Metal Index indexes hundreds of global 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 global 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 global 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 global 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 global metalcore, doom metal, sludge metal, stoner metal, progressive metal, power metal, and more.
Yes — browse global 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 global 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 global 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 global metal scene.