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Featured Album
Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
06/09 @ Warehouse SWG3, Glasgow
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Austin heavy and power metal outfit that blended classic metal songcraft with the soaring energy of the power metal tradition.
Black metal project from Genoa, formed in 2021. Camponero channels raw black metal from the Ligurian coast of northwestern Italy.
Death metal and grindcore act from Milan, formed in 2020. Camposanto — Italian for 'cemetery' — blasts through grind-infused death metal from Lombardy.
Arlington, Virginia black metal act with roots stretching back to 1985, one of the earlier American outfits to operate in the extreme underground.
Death metal act from Tilburg, North Brabant, formed in 2021. Can Abyss brings crushing death metal to a city already renowned for its extreme metal community.
Doom, heavy, and thrash metal band from Halberstadt, Germany, formed in 2020. They blend the crushing weight of doom with thrash metal's speed and traditional heavy metal's hooks.
Minnesota crossover act fusing the crunch of metal with hardcore punk's breakneck pace and street-level attitude.
Death metal band from Bielefeld, Germany, active since 2013. They deliver punishing death metal brutality from the Ostwestfalen-Lippe region.
Groove metal and metalcore band from Leeds, England, active since 2010. They deliver heavy grooves and breakdowns from the heart of Yorkshire.
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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.