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
2348 bands found
Goremouth is a death/thrash metal band from Sheffield in South Yorkshire, formed in 2021. They bring aggressive death/thrash to the Steel City.
Gorempire is a death metal and grindcore band from Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, active since the early 2000s and known for gore and war-themed material. The band released Symposium of Sickness in 2004, recorded at Studio 312 in Cuiabá, and followed it with Bloodfeast in 2009, produced by Rodrigo Lopes at Studio Riff in the same city.
Gorencephalic is a brutal death metal band from Feira de Santana, Bahia, formed by experienced musicians drawn from the Bahian underground scene, including members of Deformity BR and Sower. The band released their debut EP, Gore of the Forgotten, in December 2024 through iHell Productions, Abismo Metal Store, and No Salvation Records, with lyrics exploring the disturbing history of experimental asylum treatments.
Brutal death metal act from Zilina formed in 2022, delivering guttural punishment and slamming heaviness from northern Slovakia. Their extreme approach plumbs the lowest and most punishing depths of the death metal spectrum.
Gorephilia is a death metal band from Vantaa, Finland, founded in 2006 and among the most recognized acts in the Finnish death metal revival, with albums including Embodiment of Death, Severed Monolith, and In the Eye of Nothing. They have also released a split with Danish death metal legends Undergang, cementing their status in the international underground.
Gorepoflesh is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from León, Nicaragua, formed in 2003 out of the ashes of earlier act Cabal. The band released their only full-length, Gore Fucking Corpses, in 2009 and resurfaced with a two-track Promo 2016 demo featuring the tracks Gore Proliferation and Grotesque Ingest of Flesh. They remain one of the few extreme metal acts to emerge from the Departamento de León region.
Goreputation is a brutal death metal band from Duisburg, Germany, formed in 2012, delivering slam-inflected brutal death metal from the Ruhr Valley industrial city. The band has built over a decade of crushing brutality in the North Rhine-Westphalia scene.
Gorequisitor is a prolific one-person extreme metal project from the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic, active since 2020, blending death metal, black metal, and grindcore in a DIY home-recording approach. Their rapidly growing catalog includes Totentanz (2020), Rapeproduction (2023), Habeas Corpus Ad Inferis (2023), and Feasting on Purity (2025).
Gorerotted is a grindcore/death metal band from London and Norwich, formed in 2025. They deliver visceral, grinding death metal from the English underground.
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.