Explore World Metal
Featured Album
Irrational Pull (Deluxe) (2020)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Death Metal Album
The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
2302 bands found
Santa Cruz's Genghis arrived at melodic death metal after an early reggae phase — an unusual trajectory that lends their sound a certain openness even within a brutal framework. Since settling into the genre around 2008, they have built a solid catalog on the California coast.
San Francisco's Genghis Bong play psychedelic doom metal thick with haze and slow-motion riffing, formed in 2023 out of the Bay Area's fertile heavy underground. The name tells you everything you need to know about their priorities.
Pittsburgh's Genghis Khan draw from heavy, power, and speed metal traditions to build music with scope and ambition, active since 2014. Classic influences run strong here, delivered with the no-nonsense energy of Pennsylvania's steel-city underground.
Formed in Poughkeepsie, New York in 2004, Genghis Tron built an early reputation on their disorienting fusion of blast-beat grindcore and programmed electronic sequences, eschewing a live drummer entirely on their first releases. Their 2006 debut Dead Mountain Mouth on Crucial Blast and the 2008 Relapse Records follow-up Board Up the House pushed cybergrind into challenging IDM and ambient territory. After a decade-long hiatus, the band returned in 2021 with Dream Weapon, recorded with Kurt Ballou, featuring their first human drummer and a more meditative, psychedelic direction.
Gengis is a groove metal and thrash band from Quimper in Brittany, France, formed in 2018, with releases including their 2018 demo and the album Down to a Sunless Sea. Their sound channels aggressive, riff-driven thrash with the rhythmic punch of groove metal from France's Atlantic coast.
Gengis Khan is a heavy metal band from Bologna, formed in 2019. Named after the Mongol conqueror, they deliver commanding heavy metal from the Emilia-Romagna capital.
Houston's Genital Grinder have been a fixture of the Texas death metal underground since 2002, a two-decade run that puts them among the genre's more resilient local acts. Brutal by name and by nature.
Los Angeles's Genital Shame approach experimental black metal from an oblique angle, founded in 2022 with a sound that courts discomfort as much as aggression. Provocative in name and in practice.
Genius of Sugarcane is a stoner/doom metal band from Nova Venécia, Espírito Santo, Brazil, built around the core of vocalist and guitarist Estevão Neri Massucatti, guitarist Luis Alfredo Santos, bassist Bruno Rodrigues, and drummer Rodrigo Gaspar Rodrigues. The band released their debut EP "Preludes from New Times" in November 2019, a three-track effort recorded at Audio Space Studio that draws on H.P. Lovecraft, spirituality, and nuclear themes across its doom-laden, psychedelic sound.
Enter the Inferno
View all threads →Frequently asked questions
World Metal Index indexes hundreds of global 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 global 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 global 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 global 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 global metalcore, doom metal, sludge metal, stoner metal, progressive metal, power metal, and more.
Yes — browse global 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 global 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 global 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 global metal scene.