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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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GoatVomit Voidkvlt is a raw black metal project from Croatia, formed in 2019. Their deliberately extreme name signals the uncompromising lo-fi black metal they channel from the Croatian underground.
Goatwhip is a black metal band from Reykjavík, Iceland, formed in 2022 and emerging from the fertile Icelandic black metal scene that has produced some of the genre's most acclaimed modern acts. The project channels raw aggression and Nordic darkness.
Goatwitch is a death/black metal band from Portsmouth, active since 2005. Two decades of extreme metal from the Hampshire naval port make them one of the more enduring acts in the southern English underground.
Asheville, North Carolina's Goatworship bring a ritualistic intensity to black metal steeped in the mountainous atmosphere of Appalachia. Active since 2016, they've developed a devoted following in the Southern underground.
Cincinnati's Goblin Cleaver wrap symphonic grandeur around a core of blackened death metal, producing music that's as theatrically imposing as it is technically ferocious. Since 2021, they've demonstrated that the two approaches don't just coexist — they amplify each other.
Goblin Festival is a raw black metal project from Finland, formed in 2020, whose debut eleven-track demo features goblin-themed atmospheric black metal including the standout Infernal Chant of the Insane Goblin. Their sound merges dark metal atmospheres with fantastical, eccentric thematic material.
Goch Thezen is a black metal project from Warsaw, formed in 2021. They deliver atmospheric black metal from the Polish capital.
God Against Humanity is a black metal and death metal band from Lille, France, formed in 2018, with releases including the Castle of Dust demo (2018) and the full-length The Judgement. Their sound merges the ferocity of death metal with black metal's atmospheric hostility.
God Dethroned is a blackened death metal band from Beilen in Drenthe, active since 1997. They are one of the most internationally recognized Dutch extreme metal acts, having released numerous critically acclaimed albums of precise, aggressive blackened death metal.
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