Explore World Metal
Featured Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
No Cross No Crown (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
3216 bands found
A product of Poland's titan-grade death metal scene, this Rzeszów-based death metal and sludge metal act channels Southern-fried heaviness with hardcore punk's confrontational energy. Active since 2022, the combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
A product of Poland's titan-grade death metal scene, this Szczecin-based thrash metal act channels whiplash-inducing tempo shifts and gang vocal outbursts. Active since 2021, pure adrenaline translated into riff form.
The Polish city of Poznań serves as headquarters for this groove metal and thrash metal operation, whose arsenal includes circle-pit anthems driven by relentless double-kick propulsion. Speed and precision collide in pit-ready anthems.
Part of Poland's relentlessly productive underground, this act channels black metal and doom metal with a focus on icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Formed in 2018, based in Wrocław, their sound honors the second wave while forging its own path.
Madison's Egöth arrived in 2023 writing thrash-inflected death metal with the umlaut marking them as a band not taking themselves entirely seriously — but the music hits with genuine force regardless.
Named for the Aztec wind god, Bay Area's Ehecatl channels atmospheric black metal with a conceptual depth that matches the name's mythological weight — cold, expansive, and active since 2015 in California's rich underground.
Part of the Gothenburg school's homeland, this act channels black metal and pagan metal with a focus on pre-Christian themes and folk instrumentation over extreme metal foundations. Formed in 2019, based in Norrland, the results are heavier and more inventive than the genre tag might suggest.
Boston's Ehnahre occupies genuinely difficult terrain: experimental doom and death metal that refuses the comfort of familiar structures, built since 2008 by musicians who seem more interested in dread and dissonance than aggression alone.
Italian black metal and raw black metal act, active since 2025 delivering dissonant chord progressions shrouded in reverb-drenched malice. Rooted in the Mediterranean peninsula's diverse metal ecosystem, atmosphere and hostility share equal billing in their work.
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.