Explore World Metal
Featured Album
Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
4969 bands found
Darksite is a thrash metal band from the UK, active since 2013. They deliver site-specific thrash metal aggression.
Montgomery, Alabama's Darkskin bring a raw and uncompromising black metal vision from deep within the Deep South, a region rarely associated with the genre but whose isolation lends the project a genuinely unsettling character.
Darksky is a Milanese outfit fusing speed metal velocity with progressive metal's structural complexity, creating compositions that race forward at breakneck pace while navigating unexpected time changes and harmonic detours. Their dual-genre approach yields material that satisfies both the need for adrenaline and intellectual engagement.
DarkSoul is a black metal band from Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany, active since 2013. They explore the depths of black metal's sonic extremity with unwavering commitment to the genre's dark traditions.
Darkspace is a legendary atmospheric black metal band from Bern, Switzerland, active since 2002 and known for their cosmic, immersive soundscapes across the numbered 'Dark Space' album series. Their music creates vast, layered textures that evoke the void of deep space through lo-fi, ambient-infused black metal.
Emerging from the frozen suburban sprawl of Richfield, Minnesota in 2020, Darkspawn traffic in bleak, frost-bitten black metal that fits naturally alongside the state's long tradition of harsh atmospheric extremity.
Darkstalker is a progressive/thrash metal band from the Norman port city of Le Havre, active since 2022 and hunting through complex time signatures and aggressive riffing. Their predatory name suits a sound that stalks the boundaries between progressive metal's complexity and thrash's raw power.
Darkstar is a heavy metal band from Vienna, releasing material under the Bandcamp handle thenorf. They operate within traditional heavy metal territory, carrying on the classic European hard rock and metal lineage rooted in the 1980s.
Rochester's DarkStarr carry the torch for classic heavy metal songcraft, delivering hook-driven riffs and soaring vocals in a tradition that owes as much to the NWOBHM as to the hard rock clubs of upstate New York.
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.