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
Featured Grindcore Album
Head Cage (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
315 bands found
Power/heavy metal band from Caltanissetta, Sicily, active since 2015. Their blood-type name accompanies anthemic metal from the Sicilian interior.
NWOBHM/heavy metal band from Huddersfield, formed in 2025. Their approach channels the spirit of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal from the West Yorkshire town.
Heavy metal band from Genoa, Italy, active since 2009. Their approach delivers classic heavy metal from the Ligurian port city.
Rhevent is a heavy metal band from Pamplona, the capital of Navarre in northern Spain, formed in 2016. The band delivers traditional heavy metal from the city famous for its running of the bulls.
Heavy metal/NWOBHM band from Manchester, active since 2018. Their approach channels the classic British heavy metal tradition from northern England.
Shred and heavy metal project from the UK, active since 2014. Their approach delivers technically demanding guitar-driven heavy metal.
Heavy/groove metal band from Bridlington, England, active since 2011. Their long-running project delivers rhythmically driven heavy and groove metal from the Yorkshire coast.
Rhûn is a progressive heavy/power metal band from Dortmund in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2024. Named after the eastern lands from Tolkien's Middle-earth, the band blends progressive complexity with heavy and power metal grandeur.
Richard James is a solo heavy metal and neoclassical shred project that has been active since 2015, devoted to the intersection of classical composition and heavy guitar playing in the tradition of Yngwie Malmsteen and Tony MacAlpine. The project favors virtuosity as its organizing principle — technical proficiency deployed in service of melodic ideas that reach back to baroque and romantic influences as much as heavy metal tradition. Without a fixed location, Richard James operates in the global community of guitar-centric metal that has always transcended geography.
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.