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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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North Carolina death metal/grindcore act combining brutal death metal heaviness with the relentless blasting tempos and savage brevity of grindcore.
Black and melodic death metal band from Dobrovice, Czech Republic, formed in 2020. Their sound merges the raw intensity of black metal with the harmonic structures and melodic sensibility of death metal.
Hayward, California funeral doom solo project delivering crushingly slow, organ-tinged dirges in the Lovecraftian tradition, with a vicious yet mournful sonic weight.
Death metal and grindcore band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2011. They channel chaotic grinding extremity from the Finnish capital.
Crust-thrash act from Malmö, formed in 2021. Catachrest merges d-beat crust punk with thrash metal from Sweden's southernmost city.
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Genre-spanning extreme metal band from Manchester, England, emerging in 2025. They blend brutal death metal, deathcore, melodic death metal, and thrash into an ambitious assault.
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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.