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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.
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 Shift is a melodic death metal band from Kokkola, Finland, formed in 2021, bringing melody and aggression together in the tradition of the Finnish melodic death metal scene. Their sound balances accessible hooks with the intensity of death metal.
Gravfalt is a melodic death metal band from Tolmezzo in the Udine province, active since 2009. Their Scandinavian-style name brings Nordic influence to their melodic death metal from the Carnic Alps.
Houston's Gravitias launched in 2025 at the aggressive crossroads of melodic death metal and metalcore, where soaring leads collide with crushing breakdown architecture. Still new to the Texas scene, they arrive with the technical weight their name promises.
Formed in 2018 in Landeck, Tyrol, Greyback play a multifaceted melodic death metal rooted in aggression and melody, with additional thrash and black metal flourishes, drawing several members from the earlier Tyrolean act Avenging Angels. After the debut EP Insights (2020), they released their first full-length Built For Need in May 2024, recorded at the Synonym of Sound studio.
Greywood Manor is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from Edinburgh, active since 2013. They blend melodic death metal with metalcore dynamics from the Scottish capital.
Griefsoul is a one-man melodic death metal project from Joensuu, Finland, founded by Emppu Kinnaslampi in autumn 2020, delivering 'guitar-riff driven melodic death metal with an eerie melancholic twist' inspired by 1990s-2000s metal. Releases include the self-titled album, End of Transfixion, and Extreme Northern Griefmetal.
Grimwind is a melodic death/power metal band from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, active since 2018 and blending the aggression of melodeath with power metal's soaring energy. The project delivers dual-genre intensity from the Volga.
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