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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Grope is a groove/thrash/stoner metal band from Aarhus, Denmark, formed in 2012, evolving from early groove/thrash into a stoner metal and rock direction. The band has navigated a stylistic shift over their twelve-year career.
Grosstracktor is a groove metal band from Lota, Bio-Bío, Chile. The band's name references the Grosstraktor prototype medium tanks built by German manufacturers Rheinmetall-Borsig, Krupp, and Daimler for the Weimar Republic in violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
Groteska is a groove and industrial metal band from Jaén in southern Spain, formed in 2015, merging heavy mechanized riffs with aggressive rhythmic drive. Their sound sits at the intersection of groove metal's punch and industrial metal's cold, abrasive textures.
Groth is a stoner/groove metal band from Gdańsk, Poland, active since 2019 and delivering heavy, groove-laden riffs from the Baltic port city. The project channels the headbanging immediacy of groove metal through a stoner haze.
Grover is a groove/death metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2012 and delivering over a decade of rhythmic, crushing heaviness from the Russian capital. The project channels the headbanging immediacy of groove metal through death metal weight.
Grufflo is a thrash/groove metal band from Bonn, Germany, formed in 2023, combining thrash metal's speed with groove metal's rhythmic heaviness. The band is a newer addition to the Rhine Valley metal scene.
Gryph is a heavy/groove metal band from Rostock on Germany's Baltic coast, formed in 2015, blending traditional heavy metal with groove-laden riffing. The band brings heavyweight metal to the Mecklenburg seaport.
Gudsforlatt is a groove metal band from Tonsberg in the Vestfold region, formed in 2016. Their name — Norwegian for 'God-forsaken' — captures the abandoned, desolate character of their groove metal from the Viking Age city.
Richland Center, Wisconsin's Guilty of Destruction have been fusing groove metal's locked-in heaviness with metalcore's structural aggression since 2014, producing music built around thick midrange riffs and rhythmic impact. They're the kind of band that sounds best cranked loud in a small room.
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