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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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Two Cities is a heavy metal band from Phoenix, Arizona, formed in 2012, drawing on classic heavy metal structures and contributing to the active desert Southwest metal scene centered in the Phoenix area.
Two Headed Beast is a Portland, Oregon heavy and stoner metal band formed in 2017, combining the traditional heavy metal framework with the psychedelic, fuzz-heavy characteristics of stoner rock and metal.
Two Hundred Feet is a Los Angeles heavy metal and hard rock band formed in 2015, operating in the classic idiom of American hard rock and heavy metal with a sound rooted in the city's long tradition of arena-ready riff-rock.
Two Minutes Hate is a metalcore band from Tulsa, Oklahoma, formed in 2022, bringing the genre's blend of hardcore aggression and melodic metal to the midwestern underground scene.
Two More Opioids is a depressive black metal project from Manchester, England, formed in 2024. The act channels bleak, harrowing atmospheres through raw depressive black metal.
Two Neck Noose is a groove and thrash metal band from Westland, Michigan, formed in 2012, blending the syncopated, mid-paced heaviness of groove metal with the aggressive riffing and tempo of classic thrash.
Two Ravens is a black metal band from Bristol, England, formed in 2022. They deliver fierce, atmospheric black metal drawing on dark mythological themes.
Two Tales of Woe is a doom and sludge metal band from Dublin, Ireland, active since 2009. They combine doom's crushing weight with sludge's abrasive aggression in heavy, slow-burning compositions.
Two Tons is a doom and sludge metal band from Cleveland, Ohio, formed in 2025, emerging from a city with deep roots in underground heavy music to deliver slow, crushing compositions that draw equally from funeral doom and sludge traditions.
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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.