Explore World Metal
Featured Album
Masters of Morbidity (2022)
Featured Power Metal Album
No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
4969 bands found
Dropthehammer is a death metal and grindcore band from Pula, Croatia, formed in 2017. The band deliver relentless extremity at the intersection of brutal death metal and grindcore.
Tampa's DropZone have been operating in the Florida metalcore scene since 2014, bringing the intensity and hardcore-rooted aggression that the genre demands while leaning into the Tampa area's long-established tradition of extreme music. Their metalcore draws from both the melodic and brutal ends of the spectrum.
Droste is a progressive deathcore band from Bordeaux, France, active since 2014. Named after the recursive visual effect, they push deathcore into progressive loops.
Fierce Symphonic Death / Viking Metal out of Texas.
Drought is an avant-garde black metal band from Aubagne, France, formed in 2023. They deliver parched avant-garde black metal from Provence.
Drow is a heavy metal band from Aranda de Duero, Spain, formed in 2019. They play classic heavy metal from the Castilian heartland.
Portland, Oregon's Drown emerged in 2019 with funeral doom metal that takes its name and its mandate seriously — music designed to feel like submersion, all glacially slow tempos, cavernous low-end, and a suffocating emotional weight that discourages any notion of a quick listen. In a city with a rich experimental metal culture, they occupy the most extreme edge of slowness.
Drown in Blood is a death metal/crustcore band from Hamburg, Germany, active since 2010. They fuse death metal's heaviness with crust punk's raw, filthy energy.
Drown in Hate is a groove metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2016. They channel hatred through crushing groove metal.
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.