Explore World Metal
Featured Album
Masters of Morbidity (2022)
Featured Power Metal Album
No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
79 bands found
Draught is a melodic speed/heavy/death metal band from Lappeenranta, Finland, formed in 2020. They blend multiple metal styles into a versatile Finnish sound.
Dream Castle is a power and speed metal band from Rapallo, near Genoa, Italy, formed in 2016. The project delivers high-velocity power/speed metal with epic fantasy themes from the Ligurian coast.
Drittmaskin is a black, speed, and thrash metal band from Breim, Norway, formed in 2018. The project fuses black metal's rawness with speed and thrash metal's relentless velocity.
Formed in 2024 out of Union, New Jersey, DTA came out of the gate swinging with the kind of urgent, no-frills aggression that defined early speed metal before thrash hardened its edges. Their sound splits the difference between the breakneck tempos of classic NWOBHM-influenced speed metal and the crunchier, pit-ready riff structures of East Coast thrash. A young band with teeth already showing.
Dunwich Ritual is a speed metal band from Deuil-la-Barre, France, formed in 2022. Named after Lovecraft's horror, they deliver blistering speed metal.
Duskmachine is a speed/thrash metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2019. They deliver blistering speed and thrash metal from the German capital.
Demona is a speed metal project founded in 2007 by Constanza "Tanza" Godoy Díaz (Tanza Speed) in Valparaíso, Chile, with Tanza handling vocals and guitar across various lineups. The band released two full-lengths — "Metal Through the Time" (2012) and "Speaking with the Devil" (2013) — as well as a 2015 EP on Hells Headbangers Records featuring drummer Tormentor of Desaster and mastering by Joel Grind of Toxic Holocaust. The project later evolved into Outline in 2017.
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.