Where the scene keeps score
The Band Index is a community-run home for rock, metal, and heavy music — a place to discover bands, vote on who's the best, and find people who care about music as much as you do.
Streaming solved access and killed the argument
You can play almost any band ever recorded, but the machine picks what's next, the recommendations flatten into the same forty names, and the forums that used to host the good fights are mostly gone. If you're the person your friends come to for new bands, you already know the feeling: nobody around you cares about this as much as you do.
The opposite of a recommendation engine
On The Band Index, what's trending is whatever fans are actually fighting for — the votes they cast, the bands they follow, the threads they won't let die. No editor decides who rises. No algorithm quietly buries the weird stuff. The community does the ranking, and the ranking means something because real people put their name on it.
What you can do here
This is your room too
Claim and verify your profile, keep your discography straight, and talk to the people who already care — without renting your own audience back from an algorithm. When your fans vote, you rise. That's the whole deal.
The rules we don't break
The full commitment is in our editorial & sponsored-content policy.
Come argue about music with people who mean it
Find your scene, cast your first vote, and see who else has been waiting for a place like this.