Explore World Metal
Featured Album
Irrational Pull (2020)
Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
1616 bands found
Experimental black metal, drone, and noise band from Vasteras, Sweden, active since 2008, pushing extreme music into abrasive noise territory. Over seventeen years of experimental extremity from the Malaren Valley.
Old-school death metal outfit drawing from the grime of Autopsy, the riff vocabulary of Death, and the brutality of Obituary, Papa Necrose deal in themes of religious hypocrisy, human contradiction, and corporeal decay. Their output includes the split Culto a Morte (2016), the album Open Infected Body (2021), and Anthropomorphy Execution (2026), released through Awakening Records.
Vacaville, California's Papa Roach shot to stardom with 2000's 'Infest,' whose lead single 'Last Resort' became one of the defining songs of the nu-metal era with its unflinching lyrics about suicide and desperation. Jacoby Shaddix's raw, confessional vocal style and the band's willingness to evolve through punk, electronic, and pop-rock phases have kept them commercially relevant for over two decades. With multiple platinum certifications and consistent arena-level touring, Papa Roach have far outlasted the nu-metal movement they helped popularize.
Virginia Beach's Paper Trail have been thrashing since 2015, bringing old-school speed and precision to a city better known for Navy bases than metal scenes. Their sound is rooted in the Bay Area tradition but carries a coastal East Coast edge.
Edinboro, Pennsylvania's Papercut Homicide have been subjecting audiences to technical death metal and grindcore in equal measure since 2002, making them one of the more seasoned and abrasive acts in the state's underground. The sheer sonic violence of their hybrid is matched only by the precision with which they execute it.
Groove, thrash metal, and hardcore band from Chernihiv, Ukraine, formed in 2012, delivering over a decade of crossover aggression from the historic northern Ukrainian city. They bring versatile metal to the Chernihiv scene.
Las Vegas's Papsmear play thrash metal with the grimy, frenetic energy you'd expect from a band bred in a city built on excess and noise. Since 2017, they've been one of the Nevada underground's most reliable sources of straight-ahead metallic violence.
Emerging from Ostrava in 2016, Papuus wraps black metal's raw aggression in symphonic grandeur. The Moravian-Silesian capital's industrial grit provides an unlikely backdrop for their orchestral ambitions, creating a tension between beauty and brutality.
Scorching Experimental Black Metal (early); Post-Rock (later) from Grand Prairie.
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.