Explore World Metal
Featured Album
Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Metalcore Album
Halo (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
145 bands found
Melodic doom and death metal band from Kremenchuk, Ukraine, formed in 2020, delivering melodic doom-death from the central Ukrainian city on the Dnieper River. They bring crushing melody.
Pulchra Morte — Latin for "beautiful death" — are a US doom/death outfit that leans into funereal pacing and thick, mournful atmosphere, marrying cavernous death metal riffs to the slow-drag sorrow of traditional doom. Active since 2018, their sound is dense, deliberate, and uncompromising.
Stoner and doom metal band from Poznan, Poland, formed in 2016, delivering heavy, low-tuned riffs from the Greater Poland capital. They bring crushing stoner doom to the Poznan underground.
please update this band
Bremen's Pulver Drive has been grinding through doom metal since 2020, bringing the genre's crushing weight to the Hanseatic port city. Their north German base and explosive name create a tension between slow-building heaviness and imminent detonation.
Death and doom metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2024, evoking visions of the afterlife through crushing death-doom. They blend the weight of doom with death metal's aggression.
Doom metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 2014, conjuring occult visions through heavy, retro doom from the Norwegian capital. They bring vintage doom mysticism to Oslo's diverse metal landscape.
Scranton doom and stoner metal band born in 2022, stacking fuzzed-out riffs and tar-slow tempos in the tradition of the Northeast's working-class heaviness. Their name alone signals a commitment to lung-collapsing low end.
Depressive post-black and doom metal band from Stavropol, Russia, formed in 2019, whose name means 'wasteland' or 'desolation' in Russian. They craft bleak, expansive soundscapes from the North Caucasus steppe.
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.