Explore US Metal
Featured Album
Big Beat Manifesto Vol. X (2025)
Featured Deathcore Album
Fall of Anakin (2021)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured gothic metal Album
Fallen (2003)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse Bands
535 bands found
Virginia Beach's Coldcocked specializes in the punishing low-end crush of slam death metal, pairing guttural vocal extremity with breakdowns designed to level venues and test the structural integrity of stage floors.
Berkeley's Colonoscopy commits fully to brutal death metal's most repulsive aesthetic tendencies, delivering dense, guttural heaviness with the Bay Area's characteristic technical edge lurking beneath the gore.
Chicago's Colossus deal in crushing brutal death metal, bringing the city's underground scene a punishing wall of blastbeats and guttural aggression. Their sound is dense and relentless, built for the pit.
Fredericksburg, Virginia's Come to Pass bring brutal death metal ferocity into deathcore structures, layering guttural intensity with devastating breakdowns. They represent the Virginia underground's more extreme end.
Pittsburgh's Commit Suicide combine brutal death metal's punishing low-end with grindcore's breakneck pace, producing something overwhelmingly violent and mercilessly fast. The Steel City underground runs deep in their veins.
Boston's Composted drag brutal death metal and grindcore through a compost heap of filth, producing putrid, blast-driven assaults that leave little room for anything but decomposition.
New Jersey's Compulsed pummel listeners with caveman-heavy brutal death metal, favoring crushing low-end riffs and guttural vocals over technical showmanship.
Houston, Texas's Condemned are a brutal death metal outfit of the most uncompromising variety — guttural, down-tuned, and relentlessly heavy, with no concessions to accessibility.
San Diego's Condemned are veterans of the brutal death metal underground, known for their bone-crushing low-end, guttural vocal depths, and a catalog that has influenced countless acts in the genre.
Pomona, California brutal death metal act merging hardcore aggression with suffocating death metal brutality. Their punishing sound reflects the intensity of the Southern California underground.
Denver's Consanguinity are a slam and brutal death metal force, pummeling listeners with low-tuned guttural violence and the kind of caveman-heavy breakdowns that define the American slam underground.
Constriction are a brutal death and slam metal act working at extreme heaviness, deploying drop-tuned gutturals and bone-crushing breakdowns in service of some of the most punishing sounds the subgenre can offer.
Brutal death metal outfit from Chickamauga, Georgia delivering punishing low-tuned riffs and guttural vocals with deathcore intensity. Their sound weaponizes dense blast-beat structures and churning breakdowns into relentless aggression.
Austin, Texas brutal death metal unit that leans hard into extreme gore-soaked aesthetics and pulverizing rhythm work. Thick, down-tuned guitar tone and savage vocal delivery anchor their assault.
Allen, Texas death/grind act that fuses brutal death metal heaviness with the manic speed of grindcore. Compact, relentless songs built on blast beats and churning low-end aggression.
Enter the Inferno
View all threads →Frequently asked questions
US Metal Index indexes hundreds of US heavy metal bands across every subgenre — death metal, black metal, thrash metal, doom metal, heavy metal, progressive metal, and more. Browse heavy metal bands by genre, city, or country.
Yes — browse US 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 US 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 US 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 US metalcore, doom metal, sludge metal, stoner metal, progressive metal, power metal, and more.
Yes — browse US 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 US 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.
US Metal Index is an index of US 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 US metal scene.