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Dial Tone (2022)
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Graveflower is a doom/death metal band from Yekaterinburg, Russia, formed in 2022 and channeling crushing heaviness from the Urals, where Europe meets Asia. The project merges doom's oppressive weight with death metal's ferocity.
Gravegod is a death metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2021 and delivering crushing death metal from the Russian capital. The project channels unrelenting brutality through its death metal framework.
Gravehammer is a death/doom/black metal band from Kiel, Germany, formed in 2016, fusing three of extreme metal's heaviest subgenres into a crushing, multi-faceted sound. The band brings devastating heaviness to Germany's Baltic coast.
Kyiv black/death metal project launched in 2024, representing the newest wave of extreme metal emerging from Ukraine's capital. Their savage fusion draws from the darkest wells of both genres.
Gravelgrinder is a death metal and grindcore band from Sundsvall, Sweden, formed in 2021 and delivering grinding extremity from the Norrland coast. The project merges death metal heaviness with grindcore velocity.
Black and death metal act from Schoonhoven formed in 2015, merging the atmospheric intensity of black metal with death metal's guttural brutality. Their fusion approach draws from both extremes of the underground spectrum.
Kansas City's Gravelord blend death metal's brutality with the groove-forward swagger of groove metal, producing a sound that moves as much as it destroys. Since 2015 they've ruled their corner of the Missouri underground with thick, mid-paced authority.
Illinois's Gravelord channel melodic death metal's twin obsessions with heaviness and melody into a sound built for both the head and the gut. Their 2015 formation places them in a long tradition of Midwestern melodeath acts who wear their Scandinavian influences without apology.
Louisville's Gravemouth operate at the intersection of deathcore and death metal proper, speaking in the language of slammed breakdowns and corrosive riffs. Active since 2015, they've refined Kentucky's underground brutality into something reliably ugly.
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