Explore World Metal
Featured Album
Unreasonable Doubt (2024)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
A Love To Kill For (2023)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious (2022)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
4787 bands found
Down on Knees I'm Weak is a sludge metal band from the Leipzig/Chemnitz area of Germany, active since 2008. They deliver crushing sludge metal with a visceral, self-deprecating intensity.
Down on Me is a groove/thrash metal band from Kehl, Germany, active since 2012. They combine heavy grooves with thrash aggression from the Franco-German border region.
Down Syndrome started as a death/thrash metal act in the remote Komi city of Pechora before evolving toward symphonic death/black metal. Their controversial name and dramatic stylistic evolution from straightforward aggression to orchestral extremity mark one of the more unusual arcs in Russian extreme metal.
Down the Abyss is a doom/post-metal band from Saxony, Germany, formed in 2015. They explore the depths of heavy, atmospheric doom intertwined with post-metal's expansiveness.
Down the Drain is a melodic Viking/black metal band from the Hürth/Cologne area of Germany, active since 2013. They weave Norse themes through melodic black metal with a Viking spirit.
A post-metal and black metal trio from Liège formed in 2020 by members of Sonny's Heels and Face The Truth, Down to Dust blend noise-rock, hardcore, and blackened atmospherics into a sound ranging from Portrayal of Guilt intensity to Deafheaven sweep. Their 2022 EP No Room for Your Kind was produced by Tim de Gieter (Amenra), and subsequent releases Des Visages Meurtris (2023) and Cette Âme en Peine (2024) cement their position as one of Wallonia's most active experimental metal acts.
Down to Hell is a symphonic melodic black metal band from Malacky, Slovakia, formed in 2014. The project layers symphonic grandeur over melodic black metal.
Downcast Twilight is a melodic death and folk metal project from Birmingham, founded in December 2015 by OG in collaboration with author Marios Koutsoukos, and signed to Stygian Crypt Productions by the end of 2016. Each release explores a different historical era and civilisation, as heard on Wrath of the Anunnaki, Under the Wings of the Aquila, and Alba gu Brath.
Downcasted is a melodic death metal band from Rovaniemi, Finland, active since 2013. They deliver melancholic melodic death metal from the Arctic Circle.
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.