Bands by letter: W
- Waking The Cadaver
- Walk the Earth
- Walls of Jericho
- Walter Giardino Temple
- War
- Warbreed
- Warbringer
- Warcry
- Wardaemonic
- Wardance (USA)
- Wardog
- Wargasm
- Wargod
- Warlock
- Warlord
- Warmen
- Warrel Dane
- W.A.S.P.
- Wastefall
- Watain
- Watchmaker
- Watch Me Fall
- Watchtower
- Waterclime
- Wayd
- Waylander
- Wayne
- Weapon
- Wedding Party
- Weedeater
- Weeping Birth
- Weltmacht
- John West
- When Day Descends
- When Hope Falls
- While Heaven Wept
- Whiplash
- Whirlwind
- Whitechapel
- White Skull
- Whitesnake
- White Spirit
- White Willow
- White Zombie
- Wicked Maraya
- Widow
- Widowmaker
- Wig Wam
- Wildfire
- Windham Hell
- Windir
- Winds
- Winds of Plague
- Winter
- Winter Bestowed
- Winterborn
- Winterfell
- Winterlong
- Winter of Apokalypse
- Winters Bane
- Wintersun
- Wisdom Call
- Witchcraft
- Witchery (SWE)
- Witchery (USA)
- Witchfinder General
- Witchfynde
- Witchking
- Witchkrieg
- Withered
- Withered Beauty
- Witheria
- Withering
- Withering Surface
- Within Another
- Within Temptation
- Without Face
- Without Grief
- Without Warning
- With Passion
- Wiz
- Wizard
- The Wizar'd
- Wizzard
- Wolfen Society
- Wolfsbane
- WolfSpring
- Wolf (SWE)
- Wolfthorn
- Wolf (UK)
- Joop Wolters
- Wolven Ancestry
- Wolverine
- Wolves in the Throne Room
- Wonderland
- Wongraven
- Woods Of Infinity
- Woods Of Ypres
- Woodtemple
- World Below
- World Lost
- World Of Silence
- Wormed
- The Wounded
- Wounds
- Wraithriel
- Wrath of Killenstein
- Wrath of Ragnarok
- Wurdulak
- Wuthering Heights
- Drowning Pool
- Wyrd
- Wyvern
- Wyzards