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
The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
3134 bands found
Active since 2016, Denver's Morgue Whore weave melodic death, black, and traditional heavy metal into a distinctive hybrid — one that tempers extremity with hook-conscious songwriting and a flair for atmospheric contrast.
A melodic death metal band from Hasling in Lower Austria, Moriturus released their album Wolfsschrei, recorded and mixed at Black Devastation Sounds in spring 2007. The band sits within the Austrian extreme metal underground, drawing on melodic death idioms while maintaining a distinctly Central European character.
A melodic death metal act from Paris, Moritvri channels the Latin gladiatorial salute 'those about to die' into harmonized aggression since 2022. The band brings Scandinavian melodeath influence to the French capital.
Mormegil is a melodic death and groove metal band from Grimsby, England, formed in 2018. Named after the Tolkien sword, they deliver powerful melodic death-groove metal.
A progressive/melodic death metal act from the small western Slovak town of Nová Dubnica, Morna has been crafting ambitious compositions since 2013. The band channels the Váh valley's isolation into complex, emotionally rich melodeath.
Morning Moon is a melodic death metal act from the central Russian city of Lipetsk, active since 2019. The band channels the dawn imagery of their name into harmonized, Scandinavian-influenced compositions.
Morning Rise is a melodic death metal band from Cestas, France, formed in 2014. They craft powerful melodic death metal from the Bordeaux metropolitan area.
Mornvm is a melodic death, black, and doom metal band from Kalamata, Greece, formed in 2024. They blend multiple extreme metal styles from the Peloponnese.
Mors Silens is a melodic death and black metal band from Mezőberény, Hungary, formed in 2018. They blend melodic death metal with black metal from the Hungarian plains.
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.