Explore World Metal
Featured Album
Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
05/09 @ Mr Smalls Theatre, Millvale
Featured Grindcore Album
The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
299 bands found
Black and funeral doom metal act from Nicosia, Cyprus, formed in 2020. They combine the bleakness of black metal with funeral doom's glacially slow and oppressive heaviness.
Danish funeral doom and death metal band from Copenhagen, formed in 2010. They specialize in glacially slow, devastating funeral doom with death metal underpinnings.
Spanish funeral doom metal band from León, formed in 2022. They specialize in glacially slow, devastatingly heavy funeral doom inspired by barren, blasted landscapes.
Death/doom outfit from Sweden, formed in 2022. Their music inhabits the oppressive space where death metal's aggression meets doom's suffocating weight.
Vila do Conde-based one-man funeral doom project of the enigmatic DM, active since 2005, distinguished by the unusual incorporation of clean vocals into glacially paced compositions. Across three full-length albums including Passage and Beyond, the project explores themes of nature and solitude through drone-tinged funeral doom that stands apart from the genre's guttural conventions.
Finnish funeral doom metal project formed in 2016. They specialize in the slowest, most devastating funeral doom.
Funeral doom entity from Mór, formed in 2018. Their compositions unfold over vast stretches of time, building cavernous walls of distorted guitar that press down with the weight of a collapsing universe.
Funeral doom metal band from Seville, Spain, formed in 2024. They craft glacially slow, oppressively heavy doom from the Andalusian capital.
Knoxville, Tennessee black and funeral doom metal project, layering glacially slow funeral doom atmospherics beneath raw black metal hostility.
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.