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Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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New Brunswick, New Jersey's God Forbid helped shape early 2000s metalcore with their fusion of melodic thrash attack and heavy hardcore structure. Reunited and active, they remain one of the genre's most technically accomplished practitioners.
Izmir metalcore act formed in 2011, fusing aggressive breakdowns with melodic intensity from Turkey's third-largest city. Their high-energy approach channels the genre's balance of fury and accessibility.
God.Fear.None is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from Athens, active since 2005. Two decades of melodic death metal from the Greek capital make them one of the most enduring acts in the Hellenic extreme underground.
Godspit is a groove metal, metalcore, and thrash band from Kerava, Finland, active since 2009, with their demo Rest in Pieces showcasing three tracks of aggressive death-thrash energy. Their sound channels the punishing crossover between groove-laden riffing and thrash metal's velocity.
Gone Are the Days is a band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, that evolved from metalcore/alternative rock origins in 2017 into progressive metal territory. The project's genre evolution reflects growing ambition and compositional sophistication.
Goodhuman is a metalcore band from Aberdeen in northeast Scotland, formed in 2018. They deliver modern metalcore from the Granite City on the North Sea coast.
Goredrome is a metalcore and doom metal hybrid from Koblenz, Germany, formed in 2019, blending metalcore's breakdowns and energy with doom metal's crushing weight. The band operates at an unusual genre intersection from the Rhine-Moselle confluence.
Grafnár is a blackened grindcore and metalcore band from Reykjavík, Iceland, active since 2019 and blending blackened aggression with the chaotic velocity of grindcore and metalcore breakdowns. The project operates at the extreme fringes of Iceland's metal scene.
Grave Condition is a metalcore and death metal band from Sommerda in Thuringia, Germany, formed in 2024. The band combines metalcore's breakdowns with death metal heaviness.
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