Explore World Metal
Featured Album
Let You Go (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Metalcore Album
Halo (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
5816 bands found
Axidance merges black metal with crust from Ryazan since 2009. Their acid-dance name captures the corrosive energy of their genre-crossing approach over fifteen years from this central Russian city.
Axiom is a thrash metal band from Allersberg in Middle Franconia, Germany, formed in 2019, delivering the fast, precise aggression that has defined German thrash metal since the genre's earliest days. The band operates from the rural Bavarian countryside between Nuremberg and Ingolstadt.
Axiom Numen channels black metal from Turku since 2021, their philosophical-theological name suggesting music that grapples with fundamental truths and divine principles. Their approach brings intellectual depth to southwestern Finland's black metal scene.
Axiom Utopia is a technical death metal duo from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2023, featuring Christoph M. on vocals and Onur B. handling all guitars, bass, composition, recording, and mixing. Their 2023 debut Disembodied Voices delivers five tracks of no-gimmick technical death metal mastered at Hertzwerk Studios in Hamburg.
Axiomatic Dematerialization delivers slam and brutal death metal from Moscow since 2022. Their philosophically verbose name — suggesting the self-evident dissolution of matter — adds intellectual pretension to their guttural, pit-ready brutality.
Axis Mundi creates symphonic metal from Groningen since 2016. Named after the cosmic axis connecting heaven and earth in world mythology, their northern Dutch compositions reach for the celestial through orchestral grandeur.
Axis of Despair delivers grindcore from Örebro since 2018. Their geopolitical-despair name drives blastbeat-laden compositions of compressed violence from central Sweden's Närke province.
London's Axis of Evil combine death metal, industrial metal, and thrash into a mechanised assault of precision riffing and programmed aggression. Since 2018, their dystopian sound has channelled the paranoia and hostility of modern urban existence.
Manchester's Axis of Light operate in raw black metal territory, crafting lo-fi compositions that prioritise atmosphere and primal aggression over production polish. Formed in 2022, the project explores the genre's most uncompromising extremes with a stripped-back, confrontational approach.
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.