Explore World Metal
Featured Album
Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Groove Metal Album
The Jester Race (Black Ash-Inheritance Version) (2022)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
4839 bands found
Newbury Park, California's Collapse operates in the scrappy Southern California crossover tradition — thrash riffing, crust punk rawness, and hardcore urgency colliding in a sound built for back-alley shows and sweaty basements.
Melodic death metal band from Vienna, Austria, one of the country's longest-running acts in the genre since 1993. Their extensive catalog includes albums like 'Supernova Overdrive,' 'Doomsday Odyssey,' and 'Human Monster Madness,' spanning over three decades of melodeath.
Black and progressive metal act from Lausanne, Switzerland, formed in 2020. Their sound merges the atmospheric darkness of black metal with progressive structures and dynamic shifts.
Death-doom metal band from Gottingen, Germany. They merge the oppressive weight of doom with death metal aggression from the Lower Saxon university city.
Thrash metal and crossover band from Hoogstraten, Belgium, formed in 2016. They blend thrash metal's speed with crossover punk energy, bringing circle-pit-ready aggression from the northernmost tip of the Antwerp province.
Houston's Collapsed Mainframe is a genre-agnostic extremity project drawing from black metal, death metal, doom, and grindcore simultaneously — a chaotic, sprawling sound that fits neatly into Houston's notoriously eclectic underground.
Melodic death metal band from Bad Fussing in Lower Bavaria, Germany, formed in 2014. They blend the melodic sensibility of Scandinavian death metal with powerful aggression.
Post-metal and sludge act from Gdynia on the Baltic coast, formed in 2020. Collapsed Tower delivers expansive, atmospheric heaviness from the Tri-City area.
Hailing from Kalispell, Montana — one of the more isolated metal scenes in the country — Collapsed Vein pursues the slow, suffocating convergence of death doom, where glacial tempos and crushing low-end define every movement.
Enter the Inferno
View all threads →Frequently asked questions
World Metal Index indexes hundreds of global 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 global 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 global 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 global 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 global metalcore, doom metal, sludge metal, stoner metal, progressive metal, power metal, and more.
Yes — browse global 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 global 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 global 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 global metal scene.