Explore World Metal
Featured Album
Masters of Morbidity (2022)
Featured Power Metal Album
No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
5257 bands found
Save the Green Forest practice black metal from an undisclosed Russian location since 2013. Their environmental name channels ecological concern into atmospheric compositions, one of metal's rare eco-conscious black metal projects.
Save Yourself play metalcore from Saarbrucken, delivering the genre's signature blend of aggressive breakdowns and melodic passages. Their Saarland base places them at the crossroads of German and French heavy music traditions.
Rome's Savers deliver power metal from the Italian capital since 2013. Their name suggests preservation and rescue, channeled through the uplifting melodies and driving energy that define their chosen genre.
Saves the Day are a New Jersey band formed in Princeton in 1997, with Chris Conley as the central constant across a long and influential run through melodic hardcore, pop punk, emo, and indie rock. The band's debut Can't Slow Down carried strong Lifetime-inspired melodic hardcore energy, but 1999's Through Being Cool became the breakthrough, sharpening the writing into fast, anxious, hook-packed songs that helped shape the sound of late-1990s and early-2000s emo-pop. Stay What You Are brought broader visibility in 2001, slowing some tempos and emphasizing melody, vulnerability, and memorable choruses without losing the band's nervous emotional intensity. Later albums such as In Reverie, Sound the Alarm, Under the Boards, Daybreak, and 9 showed a willingness to stretch the band's language through darker themes, more experimental structures, and reflective storytelling. Saves the Day's catalog remains tied to emotional directness, bright guitar movement, and lyrics that turn personal turbulence into songs built for communal release.
Pistoia's SavinGraces blend death and melodic death metal from the Tuscan hills since 2023. Their name plays on "saving grace," applying spiritual redemption language to music of decidedly un-gentle intensity.
Naples' Savior from Anger merge power and thrash metal with a name that frames salvation through fury since 2024. Their southern Italian fire brings volcanic intensity to compositions that balance melody with aggression.
Savior of Death blend melodic death metal with metalcore from Duisburg, combining Scandinavian melodeath influences with the rhythmic punch of modern heavy music. Their Ruhr Valley origins connect them to one of Germany's densest concentrations of metal talent.
Colossal Gothic / Doom Metal from Houston.
Oakland, California's Saviours have been one of the Bay Area's most reliably heavy bands since 2005, fusing the fuzzed-out weight of stoner metal with the aggressive propulsion of thrash and the melodic confidence of classic heavy metal. Their records feel like desert highway riffs played at combat speed — sun-baked, riff-driven, and deeply indebted to the California heavy music tradition.
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.