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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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God Enslavement is a death metal band from Ludwigshafen, Germany, formed in 2016, delivering brutal death metal from the industrial Rhine-Neckar region. The band channels uncompromising death metal aggression.
Houston's God Fearing Fuck fuse crust punk's anarchic grime with black and death metal extremity into a sound that's as confrontational as the name suggests. Since 2014, they've operated with a vicious, street-level intensity that sits outside any comfortable scene.
Cleveland's God Forbid blend industrial metal's mechanical textures with death metal's destructive force, producing music that sounds like machinery consuming itself. Active since 2001, they've built a distinct voice in the shadows of Ohio's heavy underground.
God Forsaken is an old-school death-doom metal band from Ylistaro, Finland, formed in the early 1990s, with a lineup of Mika Hankaniemi on vocals, Hannu Kujanen on guitars, Jani Koskela on bass, and Juha Pohto on drums. Their nine-release catalog spanning decades includes Dismal Gleams of Desolation and Electric Release, rooted firmly in the Finnish death-doom tradition.
God Inc. is a thrash/groove/death metal band from Norway, formed in 2018. They blend three aggressive genres into a potent hybrid from the Norwegian underground.
God Is Dead is a death metal band from Chisinau, Moldova, formed in 2020. They deliver death metal from the Moldovan capital.
God Macabre is a death metal band from Vålberg, Sweden, active since 2014 and contributing to Sweden's legendary death metal lineage. The project channels the primal energy of classic Swedish death metal.
Groove and death metal act from Kranj active since 2005, bringing two decades of crushing rhythmic heaviness from Slovenia's fourth-largest city. Their long-running career has allowed them to forge a sound that balances groove metal's weight with death metal's ferocity.
God Shaped Devil is a groove/melodic death metal band from Manchester, formed in 2016. They blend the rhythmic punch of groove metal with melodic death metal's twin-guitar approach from the Mancunian underground.
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