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
1616 bands found
Perpetual Devourer is a death metal band from Quito, Ecuador, formed in January 2025 by guitarist and vocalist Adrián Salazar alongside drummer Diego Ocampo and bassist Víctor Ordoñez. The band released their debut album Spirits of Annihilation in late 2025 through Death Forces Records, a five-track record recorded at Winners Productions in Latacunga that delivers straightforward, aggressive death metal. Signing to a dedicated death metal label in their debut year signals the band's intent to establish a serious presence in the genre.
Melodic heavy metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2021, treating their music as an endless study in melodic metal perfection. They bring polished melodic metal from Sweden's metal capital.
Perpetual Faith play technically sharp old-school thrash metal rooted in the German school — think early Kreator and Destruction filtered through a Bay Area sensibility — and weave explicitly Christian themes throughout their lyrics. The band started releasing material in 2008 with the demo "Visions from Tomorrow" before issuing their seven-track EP "Price of My Head" in December 2014.
Perpetual Force deal in straightforward heavy metal and hard rock with a classic-era sensibility, delivering riff-driven songs that lean on groove and melody over extremity. Their 2016 debut "Absolute Power" introduced their eight-track blueprint, with tracks exploring themes of religion, justice, and human fallibility.
Perpetual Obscene is a death metal band from Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico, formed in 2020. They released their debut EP, Funereal Hymns to Bury Mankind, in 2022 through Vomit Records.
Death and thrash metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2011, waging perpetual sonic warfare for over a decade from the Swedish capital. They bring relentless aggression to the Stockholm scene.
From the Hunsrück town of Kastellaun, Pinch Black has been forging black-death metal hybrids since 2018. Their remote Rhineland-Palatinate setting, surrounded by forests and medieval castles, provides natural inspiration for their dark sonic explorations.
Perpétuos Perversos is the solo project of Gabriel Mortiph, a one-man black metal outfit from Espírito Santo that channels melodic extremity through an anti-demiurgal, occult-philosophical lens. Mortiph has built out the project across the full-length "Cogito a Pestilência" (2021) and the follow-up "Escoltando o Bastardo ao Vale das Aberrações" (2024), both exploring dark metaphysical themes through densely layered compositions.
Torrevieja's Pestilent Decay has been cultivating death metal on the sun-baked Costa Blanca since 2012. The contrast between their Mediterranean resort-town setting and their putrid sonic output captures the genre's love of subverting expectations.
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.