Explore World Metal
Featured Album
The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
246 bands found
Spanish technical death metal band from Madrid, formed in 2021 and channeling precise, angular brutality. Their sound pushes death metal's technical boundaries through intricate riffing and complex structures.
Swedish death/thrash metal band from Linkoping, delivering relentless aggression since 2012. Their Spanish name, meaning 'the nameless,' adds an air of mystery to their extreme metal assault.
Los Suffers is a doom/sludge/death metal trio from São José dos Campos, Brazil, consisting of Luiz Dias (vocals/guitar), Jean Carreira (bass), and Brendan Kitchen (drums). The band released their debut full-length "Quando A Chama Se Apaga" in March 2022, a six-track album spanning over fifty minutes of heavyweight doom recorded at AS Studio in São José dos Campos. The record drew praise from the international doom and stoner metal press, with Doomed and Stoned highlighting it as a standout entry in Brazil's underground heavy scene.
Swedish black/death metal band from Karlstad, merging two extreme genres since 2011. Their minimalist name captures the grief and deprivation at the core of their blackened death metal.
Death metal band from Winterthur, Switzerland, delivering aggressive extremity since 2018. Their approach channels the genre's core elements of crushing heaviness, technical riffing, and guttural intensity.
Spanish gothic/melodic death metal band from Aranda de Duero, blending dark romanticism with aggressive extremity since 2009. Their approach merges gothic atmosphere with melodic death metal's harmonic intensity.
Belgian black/death metal act from Sainte-Ode, active since 2009 with their 'Savage Souls' EP. Their sound merges black metal's atmospheric hostility with death metal's visceral assault.
Greek melodic death/gothic metal band from Athens, blending melodic hooks with dark, romantic atmosphere since 2013. Their approach merges melodeath's harmonic precision with gothic metal's shadowy beauty.
Lostrahuman is a death metal band from Bogotá, Colombia, formed in 2022, featuring Diego Meneses on vocals, Jaime Briceño on bass, Ivan De Avila on drums, and Alex Gomes and Alexander Torres on guitars. The band released their debut EP "Wrath of the Lamb" in 2022, with lyrical concepts exploring the individual human experience against socioeconomic and political inequality through satirical and horrific allegory.
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.