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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Gololedz is a black metal/crust band from Zielona Gora in western Poland, formed in 2022. Their Polish name — meaning 'black ice' — captures the treacherous, cold character of their genre-blending approach from the Lubuskie region.
Graabein is a black/thrash metal band from Stavanger, formed in 2014. Their Norwegian name — meaning 'grey bone' or evoking the grey wolf — signals the feral character of their black/thrash from the Rogaland coast.
Graad is a black metal/ambient/drone project from Bologna, active since 2011. They merge atmospheric black metal with ambient and drone textures from the Emilia-Romagna capital.
Graatindr is a black metal project from the Oslo/Sandefjord/Larvik area, formed in 2019. They deliver atmospheric black metal from the Oslofjord region.
Graaulgohus is a black metal band from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, formed in 2023 and forging dark extremity from Russia's fifth-largest city. The project channels the atmospheric intensity of black metal.
Grabak is a black metal band from Leipzig, Germany, active since 1999, with an extensive discography spanning from their 1997 demo through Encyclopaedia Infernalis (2001), The Serpent within Paradise (2003), Agash Daeva (2007), and SCION (2021). The band has maintained over two decades of consistent black metal output from the Saxon musical capital.
Graben is a raw black metal project from the Bugey area of eastern France, active since 2014 and trafficking in stripped-down, lo-fi black metal hostility. The project channels unrelenting bleakness through its primitive approach to the genre.
Grabesfurcht is a post-black metal project from Kempten in the Allgau region of Germany, formed in 2020, whose name translates to "grave fear." The project channels atmospheric post-black metal from the Alpine foothills of Bavaria.
Pennsylvania's Grabesruhe — a German word for the silence of the grave — crafts raw black metal draped in lo-fi menace and cold isolation. Since 2019 the project has pursued the bleakest end of the underground with uncompromising hostility.
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