Explore World Metal
Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
4969 bands found
Desecrating is a death metal band from the Ñuble region of Chile that released their debut album "Amok Syndrome" in April 2025. The eight-track record is described as a conceptual work exploring mental fractures and the collapse of human consciousness, drawing on both classic and modern death metal influences. The band positions itself as a new voice in extreme metal in Latin America, pursuing what they describe as a brutal, technical, and visceral approach.
San Francisco's Desecration have been melding death and thrash metal since 1998, drawing from the Bay Area's legendary thrash heritage and inflecting it with the darker, more brutal tonality of death metal. Their quarter-century of activity makes them one of the more quietly persistent acts in the city's extreme metal lineage.
Champaign, Illinois's Desecration have been working in the classic death metal tradition since 1998, operating far from the coastal scenes that typically dominate the genre's narrative. Their longevity in a college town suggests a tight-knit underground dedication that has outlasted trends and lineup changes alike.
Desecration is a death metal and grindcore band from Guarujá, São Paulo, Brazil, operating in the extreme underground since the 1990s. The band appeared on the compilation "Grindattack!" (2000) alongside Groinchurn and Parental Advisory, as well as on the "No Fate III" compilation, placing them among Brazil's active grindcore scene.
Desecration of Christ was a black/death metal band from Guayaquil, Ecuador, active from 2020 until their split-up. Rooted in themes of anti-Christianity, blasphemy, and war, the band released a demo in 2021 and their full-length Rape of God's Flock in 2022, followed by a split in 2023.
Desecration of Christ was a black/death metal band from Guayaquil, Ecuador, active from 2020 until their split-up. Rooted in themes of anti-Christianity, blasphemy, and war, the band released a demo in 2021 and their full-length Rape of God's Flock in 2022, followed by a split in 2023.
Desecration of Mankind is a black metal band from Oleksandriia, Ukraine, formed in 2020. The project channels dark black metal from the Kirovohrad region.
Desecration Rites is a raw black metal band from Zaragoza, Spain, formed in 2016. They perform unholy rituals through raw, uncompromising black metal from Aragón.
Desecration Throne is a black metal and dungeon synth act from Costa Rica, active as of 2025. The project released Demo 1 (...Maldito sea tu nombre...) in June 2025, a seven-track recording that moves between raw black metal and atmospheric dungeon synth passages. The band remains unsigned and independent, releasing music exclusively through Bandcamp.
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.