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Irrational Pull (2020)
Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Twist Ending is a Kentucky death metal and punk crossover band formed in 2014, fusing the brutality of death metal with the raw aggression of punk in a sound that owes as much to the D-beat tradition as to extreme metal.
Twist of Fate is a melodic progressive metal band from Akron, Ohio, formed in 2022, pursuing complex song structures and layered instrumental arrangements within the melodic progressive metal tradition.
Twisted Autocracy is a thrash metal band from Dublin, Ireland, formed in 2013. They deliver fast, aggressive thrash metal with sharp riffing and relentless energy.
Twisted Broken Bone is a death metal band from Forres, Scotland, formed in 2019. They deliver raw, punishing death metal from the Scottish Highlands underground.
Twisted Dream is a Florida hardcore and sludge metal band formed in 2018, merging the intensity and aggression of hardcore punk with the slow, oppressive weight of sludge metal into a raw and volatile sound.
Twisted Escape is a Denver, Colorado heavy/speed/thrash metal band formed in 2021, drawing on classic thrash and speed metal influences to deliver fast, aggressive riff-work rooted in the 1980s extreme metal tradition.
Twisted Fate is a heavy/doom metal band from Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 2025, blending traditional heavy metal song structures with the slow, brooding atmosphere of doom metal in one of America's most historically rich metal cities.
Twisted Form is a Los Angeles thrash metal band formed in 2023, adding to the long lineage of Southern California thrash with aggressive riff-driven compositions and the high-energy attack characteristic of the genre's classic era.
Twisted Heroes is a death metal band from Olympia, Washington, formed in 2016, operating in the shadow of the Pacific Northwest underground and delivering the genre's hallmark blend of technical brutality and unrelenting heaviness.
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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.