Explore World Metal
Featured Album
Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Grindcore Album
The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse World Metal Bands
114630 bands found
Variscythe is a melodic death/groove metal band from The Hague, Netherlands, formed in 2015. They blend melodic death metal's harmonies with groove metal's rhythmic heaviness.
Varix is a thrash metal band from Weingarten, Germany. They deliver aggressive, riff-heavy thrash metal in the tradition of German thrash.
Varkals is a thrash metal band from the Kurzeme region of Latvia, active since 2004. They are one of the longer-running thrash acts in the Latvian underground.
Varken is a black metal project from the UK, formed in 2021. They deliver raw, atmospheric black metal.
Varkodya is a melodic death metal band from Toulouse, France, formed in 2014. They deliver melodic death metal with harmonic guitar work from southern France.
Moscow's Varlam channels cold, misanthropic black metal with the intensity and aggression that characterizes Russia's deep black metal underground. Their compositions favor relentless tremolo work and blast-driven fury over atmospheric subtlety.
San Jose's Varnok have been sharpening their Bay Area-rooted thrash since 2014, keeping the tradition of crunching riffs and rapid-fire drumming alive in the shadow of the genre's greatest proving ground. They play thrash as an act of reverence — and aggression.
Varon is a gothic/death metal band from Osterhofen, Germany, formed in 2016. They merge gothic metal's dark romantic atmospherics with death metal's heaviness and growled vocals.
Varso is a progressive metal band from Miskolc, Hungary, formed in 2021. They craft technically ambitious progressive metal compositions.
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.