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Free the Witch EP (2018)
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Out of Gainesville, Florida — a city with deep metal roots — Ghore has been delivering vicious thrash/death metal hybrids since 2016, channeling the ferocity of both genres into tightly wound, relentless songs.
Ghost Brigade is a post-metal and melodic death-doom band from Jyväskylä, Finland, active from 2005 to 2020, creating heavy, mournful music that blends the distinctly Finnish sound of sorrow with the vast drone of post-metal. Their discography includes Isolation Songs, Until Fear No Longer Defines Us, and IV: One with the Storm, featuring plaintive vocals exploring themes of loss.
Nashville's Ghost Gore have been carving up the Tennessee underground since 2017, delivering no-frills death metal built on grinding riffs, blunt-force percussion, and vocals pitched somewhere between a growl and a threat. The city's country credentials mean nothing here.
Ghost Guard is a deathcore and metalcore band from Vaasa, Finland, formed in 2023, blending the brutality of death metal with the rhythmic breakdowns and intensity of metalcore. Their sound reflects the modern extreme metal crossover between deathcore's punishing heaviness and metalcore's dynamic structures.
Saint Paul's Ghost Hook have been operating in the Minnesota death metal underground since 2015, crafting heavy, no-frills death metal with a meat-and-potatoes directness that owes as much to the Midwest work ethic as to Florida's swamp-drenched originators.
Los Angeles's Ghost Hour blend death metal aggression with the suffocating weight of doom, crafting music that feels like dusk settling permanently over the city. Active since 2015, their death/doom churns with a cinematic, West Coast density.
Newly forged in Chicago in 2024, Ghost of Agony arrive on the death metal scene with no interest in easing anyone in gently — their name alone announces a commitment to the genre's most unflinching traditions of torment and devastation.
Ghost of Loss is a one-man death/doom metal project from Schwedt an der Oder, Germany, founded by Rob in 2010, built on heavy dark guitar riffs and lyrics steeped in melancholy, sadness, and despair. The project draws inspiration from Swallow the Sun and Amon Amarth, blending extreme metal subgenres into a dark, personal vision.
Ghost of Mary is a melodic death/gothic metal band from Brindisi in Puglia, formed in 2016. They blend melodic death metal with gothic atmosphere from the Adriatic coast of southern Italy.
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