Explore World Metal
Featured Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
No Cross No Crown (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
1181 bands found
Mortal Talking is a death and groove metal band from Erfurt, Germany, formed in 2024. They combine death metal brutality with groove metal's rhythmic punch and headbanging momentum.
Long Beach, California's Mortal Terror traffic in high-octane speed and thrash metal, channeling the raw kinetic energy of old-school Bay Area and Southern California thrash into a modern framework.
Mortal Torment is a death metal band from Berkshire, England, active since 2005. With two decades of activity, they remain a persistent force in the British death metal underground.
Mortal Vessels is a death metal act from Berlin, formed in 2021. The band delivers crushing extremity from the German capital's thriving underground metal community.
Savage Technical Death Metal from Fort Worth.
Founded by Gustavo Camargo and Flávio Diniz, Mortal Ways weaves science fiction and extraterrestrial mythology into death metal rooted in the traditions of Morbid Angel, Hypocrisy, and Deicide. Their 2020 self-titled debut and the 2021 EP "Enslavement Pandemic" — a four-track concept piece drawing from biology and astronomy — showcase a band committed to thematic storytelling within a crushing sonic framework.
Los Angeles death metal outfit Mortal Wound formed in 2018, bringing straight-ahead, no-frills death metal to the sprawling Southern California extreme metal scene.
Out of Andover, Massachusetts, Mortalis combine death and thrash metal into a bludgeoning hybrid, carrying on a strong New England tradition of aggressive, technically minded extreme metal.
Mortality is a black metal band from Farmington, New Mexico, active since 2015 and operating in the sparse, remote desert Southwest underground with a sound as unforgiving as the landscape.
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.