Explore World Metal
Featured Album
AntiFragile (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
102 bands found
Death metal and grindcore band from Prague, Czech Republic, active since 2015. Their uncompromising blast of brutality and brevity delivers exactly what their confrontational name promises.
Horerotted is a death metal/grindcore band from Malvern, United Kingdom, active since 2025 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Horrible Disgust is a grindcore/death metal band from Fano (Pesaro and Urbino), Italy, active since 2015 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
A blistering brutal death metal/goregrind entity from Netherlands, active since 2025. Punishing compositions and guttural fury form the core of their sound.
Horrificia are a grindcore and death metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, featuring a dual-vocal lineup of Valdo and Marcelo Uchôa alongside guitarist Bruno Moraes, bassist Vinícius Cassemiro, and drummer Erick Fryer. The band released a split with Raped Bitch through Disturbed Mind Records, a UK-based extreme metal label, with the release categorized across grindcore, death metal, goregrind, and noisecore.
Horrorterror is a death metal and grindcore band from Medellín, Colombia. The band released a self-titled EP and participated in multiple splits in 2020, including the four-way split Aberraciones Sonoras and the three-way split Síntoma de un País en Guerra alongside Anger Blast and Rotten Noise.
Hostia is a death metal/grindcore band from Warsaw, Poland, active since 2018 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Austrian grindcore and powerviolence band from Graz, formed in 2017, with a tongue-in-cheek name that belies their crushing sound. Their releases including Diese ewige Instandhaltung kotzt mich an deliver short, sharp bursts of extreme aggression with German-language fury.
Hulla is a goregrind act from Uzhhorod, Ukraine, active since 2021 and delivering chaotic, ferocious bursts of extreme music at breakneck velocity. The project channels the genre's most frenzied and violent impulses.
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.