Explore World Metal
Featured Album
AntiFragile (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
114630 bands found
Caixão is a black/death metal band from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, operating in the vein of Sarcófago, Hellhammer, Bathory, and Sodom with lyrical themes of death, anti-Christianity, and anti-cosmic Satanism. The band released the demo "Black Coffin Entities" and has issued further material including splits and a full-length album, "Herakles / Melqart," released on vinyl through Nuclear War Now! Productions in January 2025. They are currently signed to Diabolous Productions.
Columbus, Ohio thrash/speed metal band that formed in 1997 and has since split up, representing the no-frills aggression of the Ohio metal underground.
Progressive death metal band from Finland, formed in 2016. They merge progressive complexity with death metal intensity.
Brutal death metal and grindcore act from Lausanne, Switzerland, formed in 2021. They channel a punishing, blast-beat-driven assault that merges grind intensity with guttural death metal extremity.
Calabouço was a raw black metal band from Marília, São Paulo state, Brazil, active around 2019. Inspired by Mütiilation, Judas Iscariot, Burzum, and Darkthrone, the band released a three-track demo titled "Noite Sombria" in September 2019 before disbanding. Their sound adhered to the lo-fi, primitive aesthetic of the raw black metal underground.
Relentless Experimental Death / Thrash Metal out of Texas.
Salt Lake City epic/atmospheric black metal duo whose conceptual framework is drawn from Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen novels, having released the highly regarded Echoes of Battle in 2013.
Folk and gothic metal band from Zurich, Switzerland, formed in 2017. Their sound weaves melodic folk elements and gothic atmospheres into a rich, darkly romantic brand of metal.
Gothic doom act from Warsaw, formed in 2023. Caladria blends dark romanticism with crushing doom from the Polish 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.