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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Grimoria is a black metal band from Toulouse, France, formed in 2023 and evolving toward death/black metal. They represent the newest wave of Toulouse's expanding extreme metal underground.
Grimorte is a black/doom metal project from England, formed in 2020. They merge black metal darkness with doom metal's crushing pace from the English underground.
Grimsever is a black metal project from Herne in the Ruhr Valley, Germany, formed in 2023, channeling raw black metal from the post-industrial landscape. The project is a newer entry in the densely populated Ruhr black metal scene.
Grimsteed is a black metal project from London, formed in 2020. They channel raw black metal from the British capital's underground.
Grimthorn is a long-running one-man black metal project from Lower Austria, active since 1999 under Count Grimthorn, who handles all instruments and vocals. Their output includes the 2000 demo Grimthorn's Forest, a 2001 split with Uruk-Hai on CCP Records, the 2006 cassette Ein Tribut an vergangene Tage, and more recently the 2025 promo Black Hole, with themes orbiting darkness, nature, and cosmic solitude.
Grimthul is a depressive black metal project from Chisinau, formed in 2024. They channel anguished black metal from the Moldovan capital.
Halmstad-based black metal project formed in 2017, channeling dark intensity from Sweden's west coast. Their sound draws from the atmospheric and aggressive traditions of Scandinavian black metal.
Grimuack is one of Spain's most veteran black metal acts, founded in Alicante in 1994 by Baphomet and V. Beherit, with a discography spanning from the 1998 debut A.G.L.A. through Goetica Summa (2006) and Exurgat Satanas (2013). A remastered reissue of their debut with bonus 1995-1996 demo material was released in 2025.
Grimwod is a raw black metal project from Ilmenau in the Thuringian Forest, Germany, formed in 2017, delivering lo-fi, forest-themed black metal from the wooded heart of central Germany. The project channels the primeval atmosphere of the Thuringian Forest.
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