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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Ghold is a doom/sludge/avant-garde metal and noise rock band from London, active since 2012. They push the boundaries of doom and sludge metal into avant-garde and noise rock territory from the British capital.
Gire is an extreme avant-garde metal project from Mako in southeastern Hungary, active since 2007. They push metal into experimental and avant-garde territory from the small city near the Romanian border.
Glumurphonel is a solo industrial black metal project from France, formed in 2020, merging the mechanical harshness of industrial music with black metal's ferocity. Releases include Demo I and Father, channeling avant-garde aggression through a solitary creative vision.
Gold Spire is an avant-garde death/doom metal band from Uppsala, Sweden, active since 2013 and pushing death/doom into experimental, unconventional territory. The project challenges genre conventions through ambitious compositions.
Gort is an avant-garde black metal project from Budapest, formed in 2020. They push black metal into experimental territory from the Hungarian capital.
Gorycz is an avant-garde black metal project from Olsztyn, formed in 2018. Their Polish name — meaning 'bitterness' — captures the acrid character of their experimental black metal from the Warmia-Masuria region.
Conceptual avant-garde black metal collective from Utrecht operating as a 'Gesamtkunstwerk Club,' integrating literature, fine art, and audio theatre into sprawling musical odysseys. Their debut chronicled Willem Barentsz's doomed 1596 Arctic expedition, while the 'Zwart Vierkant' series draws from jazz, classical, and prog to create expressionistic sonic narratives.
Grummelgnom is an Upper Austrian solo metal project characterized by its creator as critical, angry, and unhinged—a self-described metal project from the forest with a pronounced sociopolitical edge. Releases including Kunst statt Krieg (Art Instead of War), Wut 2005–2009, and Waldwut in fünf Akten trace a decade-long output of avant-garde metal built on protest and social critique.
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