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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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British groove metal/metalcore outfit active since 2025, combining crushing syncopated riffs with metalcore's dynamic song structures and breakdown-heavy approach. Their sound bridges pit-ready heaviness with modern extreme metal aggression.
Uncompromising death metal from Birkirkara, active since 2017. Their material trades in the genre's heaviest traditions: cavernous vocals, churning guitar work, and percussion that hits with tectonic force.
Konya-based doom metal act active since 2018, crafting monolithic compositions built on slow-burning riffs and an atmosphere of pervasive heaviness. Their patient approach to songwriting lets each chord ring with crushing finality.
German death/thrash metal band from Reichenbach im Vogtland, formed in 2020. They channel chaotic death-thrash from the Saxon-Thuringian borderlands.
French thrash/death metal and grindcore band from Lyon, formed in 2014. They deliver bounty-hunter death-grind from the Rhône Valley capital.
Devastating Blackened Death Metal from Houston.
French death metal band from Essonne founded in 2012 as a solo project by Vorace, later expanding with guitarist Thomas Menudier. Their 2014 EP On Pain Of Death delivers five tracks of aggressive, dark death metal centered on themes of violence and mortality.
Goregrind, grindcore, and death metal band from Minsk, Belarus, evolving from pure goregrind into a broader extreme metal assault since 2013. Their provocatively named project embraces the most visceral corner of extreme music.
Uncompromising death metal from Stadskanaal, active since 2018. Their material trades in the genre's heaviest traditions: cavernous vocals, churning guitar work, and percussion that hits with tectonic force.
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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.