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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Dial Tone (2022)
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Moscow melodic death metal project formed in 2023, weaving melodic sophistication through death metal's aggressive framework. Their hook-laden approach channels the accessibility and emotional range of the Gothenburg tradition.
Denver's Ghost Spawn conjure death/doom with a high-altitude coldness, their music moving at the pace of tectonic plates and hitting just as hard. Active since 2019, they are among Colorado's more reliably crushing underground acts.
Ghost Voyage is a death-doom metal band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2009, featuring vocalist Teppo Hyttinen, dual guitars, keyboards, and guest strings for an orchestral dimension. Their 2013 debut Endless Oceans spans eight tracks over sixty-six minutes, following a narrative arc of homecoming, loss, and apocalyptic imagery across sweeping, atmospheric compositions.
Seattle's Ghostblood have been trading in death/thrash metal since 2015, combining the precision and brutality of death metal with thrash's kinetic urgency in a way that fits the Pacific Northwest's tradition of technically focused extremity.
Ghostheart Nebula is a melodic doom/death metal band from Milan, formed in 2018. They blend melodic sensitivity with the crushing weight of doom/death metal from the Lombard capital.
Ghostname is a death metal and grindcore act from Soro, Denmark, formed in 2012, combining death metal's heaviness with grindcore's frantic pace from the Danish countryside. The band has maintained over a decade of extreme metal output.
Ghostorm is a technical death metal band from Vilnius, active since 2004. Two decades of technically ambitious death metal from the Lithuanian capital.
Ghosts in Gold is a band from Bath that evolved from black metal origins into death metal, formed in 2020. Their stylistic shift reflects the restless creative energy of the Somerset city's underground metal scene.
Purcellville, Virginia's Ghosts of the Mud bring the visceral, down-tuned fury of deathcore and death metal out of the Northern Virginia countryside since 2022, their music as heavy as the clay soil their name invokes.
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