Explore US Metal
Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Madness (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse US Metal Bands
2438 bands found
Detroit's Shit Life plays grindcore with the working-class fury and industrial-city grime that the genre demands, adding another raw and punishing voice to Motor City's long tradition of extreme underground music since 2017.
Milwaukee's Shit Outta Luck blends heavy metal muscle with stoner rock's riff-first sensibility and hard rock swagger, making them a natural fit for the Wisconsin bar-circuit heavy sound since 2012.
San Clemente, California's Shit Wizard merges black and death metal with a nihilistic, lo-fi edge, building a reputation in the Southern California underground for unfiltered, filthy extreme metal since 2012.
Burlington, Vermont's Shitangel throws black, death, and thrash into a single caustic blender, emerging as one of the more abrasively minded acts in the New England underground with an irreverent approach to extreme metal since 2019.
Crushing Sludge Metal out of Texas.
El Paso's Shitbear has been combining death metal's brutality, thrash's speed, and grindcore's intensity since 2011, forging an ugly, unpretentious extreme metal attack that reflects the border city's grinding underground energy.
A Salt Lake City sludge metal outfit formed in 2020, Shitchrist drag their sound through the muck with slow, punishment-heavy riffs and an abrasive, confrontational edge typical of the American underground sludge scene.
Hailing from Erie, Pennsylvania, Shitestrom have been carving out their brand of raw, corrosive black metal since 2010, drawing on the bleak industrial landscape of the Great Lakes region to fuel a decade-plus of grim, uncompromising output.
A Little Rock, Arkansas act born in 2021, Shitfire fuse the crawling weight of doom with sludge's nasty low-end aggression, channeling the swampy heaviness of the mid-South into dense, slow-burning walls of distortion.
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, metalcore, hardcore punk, grindcore, sludge, stoner metal, and more. Browse heavy metal bands by genre, city, or state.
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.