Explore World Metal
Featured Album
Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Liars & Thieves (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
251 bands found
Melodic death metal band from Amiens in northern France, active since 2008 with nearly two decades of experience. Their long tenure has allowed them to refine their approach to melodic death metal within the French metal landscape.
Death and thrash metal band from Stathelle, Norway, active since 1990 with over three decades of experience. Their long history makes them veterans of the Norwegian extreme metal scene, predating the second wave of black metal.
Untrodden is a Swedish death metal project active since 2018, operating in the underground extreme metal scene. The project delivers uncompromising death metal from the Scandinavian tradition.
Untrop is a symphonic blackened death metal band from Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, formed in 2009, incorporating violin alongside powerful riffs and orchestration to create a dynamic dark atmosphere. Their releases include Iskra and Pale Illusions of Life, featuring lyrics in both Ukrainian and English.
Untu is a death/black metal project from Saint Petersburg, Russia, operating in the extreme metal underground since 2019. The project channels aggressive black and death metal from Russia's cultural capital.
Melodic thrash and death metal band from Mezy-sur-Seine near Paris, active since 2021. Their sound blends the melodic approach of Swedish death metal with thrash metal's relentless speed.
Blackened grindcore, noise, and death metal project from Belfast, Northern Ireland, active since 2015 and evolving from early grindcore-noise toward blackened death metal. Their confrontational sound reflects Belfast's growing reputation for extreme metal.
Death metal and grindcore band from O Carballino in Galicia, Spain, delivering devastating extremity since 2013. Their sound combines the grinding blasts and brevity of grindcore with death metal's structural depth and guttural vocals.
Los Angeles's Upon Stone have built their sound on the melodic death metal tradition since forming in 2021, bringing a gothic sensibility and emotional weight to a genre often dominated by pure aggression. Atmospheric and dark, they stand apart from the coastal city's more straightforward heavy acts.
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.