Explore World Metal
Featured Album
Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
2414 bands found
Roselle Park, New Jersey's Danny Tanner have been mining the most depraved overlap of death metal and grindcore since 2007, their absurdist name concealing genuinely vicious music. Short songs, maximum damage — and the joke lands every time.
Hudson, New York's Dark Fate are something of a shape-shifter — their history spans death metal, grindcore, thrash, groove, and traditional heavy metal, a genre-wandering evolution that makes them genuinely hard to pin down. Two decades of mutation with a riff always at the center.
Dark Goat is a Catanian blackened death metal and grindcore act that blends the ferocity of black metal with punishing death metal brutality, wrapping it in gloomy atmospheres and razor-sharp riffs. Their prolific catalog spans releases like God is Dead, Nocturnus Impaler, and a cover of Mayhem's "Freezing Moon," anchored by lyrics fixated on darkness, blasphemy, and destruction.
Dark Serpent merges death metal's guttural extremity with the hyperkinetic tempo of grindcore, producing short, savage bursts of sonic violence. Their Italian underground roots show in a raw production style that prioritizes visceral impact over studio polish.
Dark Tennis is a three-piece extreme metal outfit from Bergamo that defies easy categorization, smashing together elements of black metal, grindcore, and metalcore into an unpredictable hybrid. Their releases Wimbledoom and Digital Posture suggest a tongue-in-cheek sensibility underpinning genuinely ferocious music.
Darktempered is a death/black metal and grindcore band from Miskolc, Hungary, active since 2005. With two decades of activity, the band are veterans of the Hungarian extreme metal underground.
Syracuse grindcore act Dasein take their name from Heidegger's concept of human existence, then promptly obliterate any philosophical calm with blastbeat-driven bursts of noise and fury since forming in 2021.
Grand Island, Nebraska's Day of the Locust deliver death metal and grindcore in short, swarming bursts — music as relentless and destructive as the plague species that inspired their name. Since 2016, they've channeled the Great Plains' flat, oppressive expanse into some of the most compact brutality in the Midwest.
Days of Desolation is a grindcore and crust punk band from Halen, Belgium, active since 2007 and committed to politically charged, high-velocity material rooted in a DIY ethic. Their discography — documented on the 2025 anthology Dayscography 2010–2025 — spans numerous splits with international acts like Noisear and Travølta alongside full-lengths including Circles (2022).
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.