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Colossal Death / Doom Metal out of Texas.
Gravetaker is a black and death metal band from Oulu, Finland, formed in 2017, merging the ferocity of both genres into a punishing hybrid. Their sound combines black metal's atmospheric hostility with death metal's crushing weight.
Florida's Graveview have been staring into the death metal abyss since 2018, their sound shaped by the state's long and storied tradition of brutality. Straightforward and unornamented, they prioritize the visceral over the cerebral.
Gravewards is a death metal band from Athens, formed in 2018. They channel raw death metal aggression from the Greek capital.
Graveworms is a death metal band from Pluguffan in Brittany, active since 1993. Over three decades from the far western tip of France, they represent one of the most enduring death metal acts in the Breton underground.
Graveyard is a melodic death/groove metal band from Duisburg, Germany, formed in 2015, combining melodic death metal's guitar harmonies with groove metal's rhythmic punch. The band brings a balanced blend of melody and heaviness to the Ruhr Valley scene.
Graveyard Dirt is a doom/death metal band from Stranorlar in County Donegal, Ireland, originally formed in 1994 and reformed after a hiatus to release their debut For Grace or Damnation (2010) on Ashen Productions. Their long history includes a 1995 demo and a deal with Ars Metalli before their initial disbanding.
Graveyard Ghoul is a death metal band from Westerstede in Lower Saxony, Germany, formed in 2019, channeling horror-themed death metal from the rural northwest. The band delivers ghoulish, graveyard-obsessed death metal.
Graveyard of Souls is a death-doom duo from Burgos, Spain, featuring Angel Chicote on music and Raúl Weaver on vocals, with an extensive discography including Infinitum Nihil, Shadows of Life, and Pequeños Fragmentos de Tiempo Congelado. Their contemplative, Spanish-titled records explore themes of existence, time, and desolation across a richly atmospheric body of work.
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