Explore World Metal
Featured Album
Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
1181 bands found
A death metal act from Caserta near Naples, Menarca has been delivering aggressive compositions since 2007. One of the longer-running acts in the Campanian underground, the band channels southern Italian intensity into brutal death metal.
From Albuquerque, New Mexico, Mendacium have been forging blackened death metal since 2017 in one of the American Southwest's more isolated metal scenes, and that geographic remove is audible in the music — a rawness and arid hostility that mirrors the high desert terrain. Their death/black hybrid leans into the darkness native to both genres, blending the blasting intensity of death metal with black metal's corrosive, atmospheric venom. Few cities produce extreme metal quite like Albuquerque does, and Mendacium stand as one of the scene's sharper exports.
A death metal act from Poznań, Mendax has been delivering aggressive compositions since 2020. The Latin name, meaning 'liar,' channels deception into dark, confrontational death metal.
A melodic death metal act from Oulu in northern Finland, Menial emerged in 2019 with a sound rooted in the Scandinavian melodeath tradition. The band brings the cold, wintry atmosphere of the Arctic Circle region into their harmonized guitar work.
San Fernando Valley's Menk have been dragging death metal through a hardcore/punk filter since 2018, producing something rawer and more confrontational than the genre's polished technical end — a death metal/punk hybrid that owes as much to d-beat and early hardcore as it does to Morbid Angel. Los Angeles has a long underground tradition of genre-crossing brutality, and Menk embody that spirit by building a sound that is ugly, direct, and unapologetically aggressive. They are a Valley band in the best sense: scrappy, loud, and refusing to be smoothed down.
Mens Rea is a progressive death metal act from Kadıköy on the Asian side of Istanbul, formed in 2023. Named after the legal concept of criminal intent, the band delivers intellectually ambitious death metal from the Bosphorus.
Menschenbrecher is a black/death metal band from Hanover, Germany, active since 2016. Their name, meaning "human breaker" in German, signals the visceral intensity of their approach to extreme metal, documented across their demo and the release "Wahn."
A death metal act from Zwolle in Overijssel, Menschwalsch has been delivering aggressive compositions since 2020. The band channels the flat, windswept landscape of the Dutch east into crushing extremity.
Mensis is a melodic death metal/deathcore band from Stuttgart, Germany, active since 2017. Their sound blends the harmonic sophistication of melodic death metal with deathcore's crushing breakdowns from the Baden-Württemberg capital.
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.