Explore World Metal
Featured Album
Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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
305 bands found
Gothic Castle is a band from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, that evolved from doom/death metal origins in 2016 into gothic metal territory. The project bridges extreme metal heaviness with gothic atmospherics from the Volga.
Gothic Sky is a band from Michurinsk, Russia, that evolved from doom/death metal origins in 2020 into a gothic/black metal direction. The project traces an arc across multiple dark metal genres.
Gothic Stone is an epic doom/progressive metal band from Palermo, Sicily, formed in 2018. They blend doom weight with progressive complexity from the Sicilian capital.
Gour is a black/doom metal project from Clermont-Ferrand in central France, active since 2017 and merging the bleakness of black metal with the crushing weight of doom. The project inhabits the shadowy crossroads where these two genres meet in suffocating atmosphere.
Gourva is a doom and drone metal project from Pohjois-Karjala in eastern Finland, one of the scene's longest-running acts, creating hypnotic, psychedelic-tinged extreme heaviness. Their releases Another World and Intiaani Manaus explore vast sonic spaces through droning, repetitive structures.
Gozd is a doom/post-metal band from Wroclaw, formed in 2023. Their name — Polish for 'forest' — signals the nature-oriented atmosphere of their doom and post-metal from the Lower Silesian capital.
Old-school death/doom metal act from Leiden founded by Remco Kreft of Soulburn fame, risen from the ashes of Nailgun Massacre and Xenomorph. Their four full-lengths, including 2025's 'Icons of Ruin' on Listenable Records, pay homage to the primordial heaviness of Bolt Thrower, Asphyx, and early Dutch death metal.
Columbus, Ohio's Grael began life trading in gothic doom and pivoted toward psychedelic stoner territory, tracing a natural arc from shadow to smoke. Their music carries an underlying mysticism that connects both phases of their evolution.
Grailstone is a stoner/doom metal band from Bristol, formed in 2023. They contribute to Bristol's legendary doom and stoner metal tradition.
Enter the Inferno
View all threads →Frequently asked questions
World Metal Index indexes hundreds of World 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 World 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 World 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 World 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 World metalcore, doom metal, sludge metal, stoner metal, progressive metal, power metal, and more.
Yes — browse World 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 World 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 World 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 World metal scene.