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Divine (2024)
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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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Grim Shit is a progressive metal and djent project from Paris, formed in 2012. They blend technical shred guitar with progressive metalcore and djent rhythms from the French capital's eclectic heavy music scene.
Grimmer is a death metal and metalcore band from Czechowice-Dziedzice, Poland, active since 2016 and fusing death metal heaviness with metalcore's dynamic energy. The project emerges from the southern Silesian metalworking region.
Raleigh's Grohg have spent over a decade wrestling sludge metal and metalcore together into something heavier and more punishing than either genre alone. Since 2012, they've built a reputation on dense, churning performances that don't let up.
Groundswell is a deathcore/metalcore band from Nantes, France, formed in 2015. They deliver heavy breakdowns and aggressive vocals from the Loire-Atlantique capital's active heavy music scene.
Grove Street is a metalcore/crossover band from Southampton, active since 2013. They blend metalcore heaviness with crossover energy from the Hampshire coast.
Guide to Oblivion is a melodic thrash/death metal and metalcore band from Rottenacker and Ulm, Germany, formed in 2013, blending multiple aggressive styles into an accessible yet heavy package. The band has maintained over a decade of activity in the Swabian metal scene.
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.
Gwendydd is an all-female-fronted extreme metal band from Sofia, Bulgaria, formed in 2020, featuring a five-piece lineup with two guitarists delivering melodic death metal and metalcore. Their releases include the album Human Nature and the soundtrack piece The Nightmare Ends Tomorrow.
Gughill Blast is a melodic metalcore and deathcore band from Thuringia, Germany, formed in 2017, combining melodic hooks with crushing breakdowns. The band brings modern extreme metal to the eastern German scene.
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