Explore World Metal
Featured Album
Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Evidence (2023)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
5257 bands found
Spike the Tomb is a Pittsburgh melodic death metal band formed in 2012, weaving Gothenburg-influenced melodic leads and twin-guitar harmonies through a backbone of forceful American death metal.
Spiker play heavy metal and hard rock from Essen in the Ruhr Valley, channeling classic rock energy from one of Germany's great industrial cities. Formed in 2023, they bring fresh vintage metal spirit to the Westphalian scene.
Kyiv's Spikers deliver speed metal with punk influences from the Ukrainian capital since 2016. Their puncturing name channels the piercing force of driven nails into compositions of high-velocity, punk-charged intensity.
Spillage is a Chicago doom and heavy metal band formed in 2015, combining the grinding tempos and crushing weight of doom metal with the riff-centered swagger of traditional heavy metal.
Crushing Slam / Brutal Death Metal from San Antonio, Texas / Weidman, Michigan.
Spinal Deformation deal in brutal death metal from the German underground, their orthopedic-horror name reflecting the genre's tradition of medical grotesquerie. Formed in 2023, they bring bone-twisting brutality to the extreme scene.
Spinal Fetish is a death metal band from St. Louis, Missouri, formed in 2023, playing visceral and gore-inflected death metal that fits comfortably in the midwest's brutal underground tradition.
Spinal Fluid is a Minneapolis slam and brutal death metal band formed in 2025, focused on the pit-ready downtuned breakdowns and guttural extremity that define the slam subgenre.
Spinal Marrow deliver heavy and thrash metal from Madrid, channeling the genre's aggressive energy with the anatomical directness their name demands. Active since 2017, they bring bone-deep intensity to the Spanish capital.
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.