Explore World Metal
Featured Album
Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Evidence (2023)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
9189 bands found
Mesa, Arizona's SaintBreaker have been pummeling audiences since 2015 with a thrash/death hybrid that carries the desert's unrelenting heat in every riff — aggressive, stripped-down, and unwilling to waste a note on anything that doesn't serve the assault. They sit comfortably in the tradition of bands who treat the thrash/death crossover not as a compromise but as a force multiplier.
Sakeo deliver thrash and groove metal from the Navarrese capital of Pamplona, combining aggressive velocity with headbang-inducing grooves. Formed in 2023, they bring the running-of-the-bulls energy to their thrash compositions.
Salavelatoria channel thrash metal from the Galician countryside near Ponte Caldelas, bringing aggressive velocity to the green, rain-soaked northwest of Spain. Active since 2016, they represent Galicia's growing thrash metal contingent.
Tucson's Salent are a newly formed progressive thrash/death outfit drawing on the Southwest's history of technically inclined metal — music that values both aggression and complexity, where time signatures shift as naturally as the rhythm section locks in. Their progressive death/thrash approach promises a band willing to let songwriting sprawl as much as it punishes.
Out of Monticello, Indiana — deep in the American Midwest — Salivus emerged in 2024 with a straightforward thrash metal mission: fast, mean, and unadorned. The band represents the kind of regional underground tenacity that keeps thrash alive far outside the coasts, with the no-nonsense delivery that small-town metal communities tend to breed.
Samsara Circle blend thrash metal with metalcore from Dusseldorf, combining the velocity of classic thrash with modern metalcore's rhythmic breakdowns. Active since 2011, they've been forging their crossover sound in one of the Rhine-Ruhr's most vibrant music cities.
Thrash metal band from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, formed in 2012, featuring André Nisgoski (Macumbazilla), Karim Serri and Markos Franzmann (both also of Legacy of Kain), and Fabiano Menon (Dave Evans, Boca Raton). The band released the album Lip Reading the Dead through their Bandcamp page, recorded and released independently in Curitiba.
San Quentin play thrash metal from Euskirchen, named after the notorious California prison in keeping with thrash's tradition of borrowing from American counterculture. Their Rhineland output channels old-school thrash aggression with a modern German edge.
Thrash metal band from Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, formed in 2016. The band — featuring Pablão on vocals, Bruno Vieira on guitars and bass, and Guilherme Kubaski on drums — released the seven-track EP Carnificina dos Deformados in November 2016, available independently through Bandcamp.
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.