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
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
Browse World Metal Bands
2348 bands found
Gurges is a thrash metal band from Zadar on the Adriatic coast, formed in 2018. They bring thrash aggression to the historic Dalmatian city.
Odesa-based project launched in 2025, merging black metal, death metal, doom metal, and grindcore into an eclectic extreme metal fusion. Their genre-spanning approach defies easy categorization through sheer stylistic ambition.
Gurglerot is a one-man goregrind project from Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, founded in 2020 by musician Adrian. The project draws on gore and horror film themes, with the 2024 EP Slashergrind being its most recent release.
Gurgling is a death metal and grindcore band from Kraków, Poland, formed in 2026 and representing the newest generation of Polish extreme metal. The project channels grinding brutality from one of Poland's most historic cities.
Gurgulator is a death/thrash metal/grindcore band from Macclesfield in Cheshire, formed in 2022. They channel grinding extremity from the Peak District edge town.
Gurkhorg is an atmospheric black metal band from Coquimbo, Coquimbo Region, Chile, formed in 2024. They are one of several atmospheric black metal acts active in the Coquimbo scene alongside local bands such as Aume and Sunvher.
Gurkkhas is a technical and extreme death metal band from Lannion in Brittany, France, whose 2026 album American Life of Suffering on Plague Demon Records delivers twelve tracks of martial-themed brutality. The album features compositions exploring warfare and struggle through relentless technical precision.
Gurt is a sludge metal band from London, active since 2011. Their name — West Country dialect for 'great' or 'big' — captures the massive weight of their sludge metal.
Gurthadun is a Polish black metal project formed in 2024 and channeling the darkness of the Polish black metal tradition through raw, aggressive compositions. The project draws from one of the world's deepest national black metal scenes.
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.