Explore World Metal
Featured Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
No Cross No Crown (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
2414 bands found
Duramater is a brutal death metal/goregrind band from Emden, Germany, formed in 2023. They push extreme boundaries with visceral brutality and goregrind excess.
Dushman is a black/death metal and goregrind band from Hay-on-Wye, Wales, formed in 2024. The band channel extreme metal aggression through a fusion of black metal, death metal, and goregrind.
Dysbiosis is a death metal, grindcore, and noise band from London, formed in 2025 and describing their sound as "deathbeat noisegrind." Their debut I (2025) delivers four tracks in under seven minutes, released on a limited cassette run of twenty-five glitter-sprayed copies.
Dysmenorrhea is a goregrind act from Malta, delivering the genre's characteristic ultra-guttural vocals, blast beats, and medically themed brutality from the Mediterranean's smallest island nation. Their gynecological name places them firmly in the tradition of goregrind's fascination with clinical horror.
Dysmorfic is an experimental grindcore band from Mantua, Italy, formed in 2000. One of the longer-running extreme acts in the Lombardy underground, the project pushes the boundaries of grindcore with experimental elements.
Dysphoric is a death metal/crust punk/grindcore band from Dresden, Germany, formed in 2021. They fuse the extremity of death metal and grindcore with crust punk's raw filth.
Lubbock, Texas-based technical death metal and grindcore outfit active since 2011, Dystrophic merges the surgical precision and rhythmic complexity of tech-death with the ferocious brevity of grindcore. Their West Texas origins put them squarely in an unlikely locale for such extreme and technical material.
Dodthorn is an experimental black metal and grindcore band from Riga, Latvia, formed in 2025. The project pushes the boundaries of extreme music by fusing black metal with grindcore and experimental elements.
Pittsburgh's E.F.6 tears through the intersection of death metal and goregrind with blunt-force efficiency, formed in 2018 and operating in a city with a long tradition of underground extremity.
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.