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Featured Album
Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Dial Tone (2022)
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Pittsburgh death metal band delivering grim, crushing brutality from the Steel City underground. Their music is built on heavy, grinding riffs and a relentlessly dark worldview.
West Simsbury, Connecticut death metal act bringing brutal heaviness and guttural aggression to the New England underground. Their sound is dense, punishing, and uncompromising.
Oakland death metal and crust punk band fusing the grime of hardcore punk with the brutality of extreme metal. Their Bay Area edge gives their music a raw, street-level ferocity.
Philadelphia brutal death metal band delivering bone-crushing heaviness and guttural extremity from the City of Brotherly Love. Dense, technical, and relentlessly punishing.
Savage Melodic Death Metal from San Antonio.
Elizabeth, New Jersey black-death metal band fusing icy black metal atmospherics with death metal's unrelenting brutality. Their sound is dark, punishing, and rooted in extreme metal orthodoxy.
New Jersey act fusing deathcore's modern heaviness with death metal brutality and groove metal's rhythmic punch. Their sound is heavy, djent-adjacent, and built for maximum impact.
Pinckney, Michigan black-death metal band combining the icy aggression of black metal with death metal's crushing brutality. Their Midwest roots bring a raw, unpolished intensity to their sound.
Death metal band from Lohja, Finland, formed in 2015. They deliver filthy, cult-themed death metal from the Finnish lake town.
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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.