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
Brave New World (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
4839 bands found
Tempe, Arizona's Collapsian merges sludge metal's toxic weight with doom's deliberate pace, a desert-baked heaviness that trades the genre's usual damp griminess for something sun-dried and abrasive.
Tampa's Collapsor combines the grind of grindcore with the snapping aggression of crossover thrash, keeping songs short, loud, and relentless — standard operating procedure for the fertile Tampa extreme scene.
New York's Collapstomy brews a particularly unpleasant combination of grindcore, death metal, and sludge — ugly by design, the kind of band that seems to take genuine pleasure in musical discomfort.
Black-death metal band from Noisy-le-Sec near Paris, France, formed in 2019. They fuse black metal darkness with death metal aggression.
Doom-sludge act from Bologna, formed in 2020. Collars layers crushing, low-end heaviness over plodding sludge tempos from Emilia-Romagna.
Heavy metal band from Viterbo in Lazio, formed in 2015. Collateral Damage brings aggressive, hard-hitting metal energy to central Italy.
Heavy metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2014. They forge hard-hitting heavy metal from the Catalan capital.
East Hartford, Connecticut's Collective Brutality brings together the technicality of progressive metal with the violence of death and thrash, a Connecticut act that earns its name through dense, punishing arrangements.
Gothic metal band from the Hauts-de-France region, active since 2002. They weave dark, melancholic atmospheres into a heavy metal framework from northern France.
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.