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Let You Go (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Halo (2017)
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Out of Bellevue, Nebraska, Ghost Tower have been fusing doom's crushing weight with heavy and thrash metal's forward momentum since 2016 — looming, powerful, and built to last, like the water towers that dot the Great Plains horizon.
Staten Island's Ghost Walking arrived in 2019 with a thrash metal attack shaped by New York City's confrontational energy — sharp, sardonic, and lit up with the borough's particular brand of aggressive pride. Thrash from the forgotten borough.
Seattle's Ghostblood have been trading in death/thrash metal since 2015, combining the precision and brutality of death metal with thrash's kinetic urgency in a way that fits the Pacific Northwest's tradition of technically focused extremity.
Des Moines's Ghostbusters are not here to save the city from spectral infestation — they are here to thrash it to rubble, a crossover/thrash outfit active since 2016 whose VHS-era aesthetic translates into a full-speed, no-budget assault on everything respectable.
Ghostrider is a black/heavy/thrash metal band from Genoa, formed in 2024. They blend three classic metal traditions from the Ligurian port city.
Ghotna is a death/thrash metal band from Småland, Sweden, formed in 2023 and delivering aggressive crossover fury from the historic heartland of Swedish metal. The project channels the rich metal heritage of the region.
Baltimore's Ghoul have been terrorizing the Maryland thrash underground since 2000, building a catalog of no-frills speed and aggression that keeps faith with the genre's blue-collar roots. A veteran outfit in a scene that respects longevity.
Oakland's masked and anonymous Ghoul have been delivering horror-obsessed death/thrash and grindcore since 2000 under elaborate fictional personas, building one of the most cult-beloved bodies of work in Bay Area metal — grotesque, theatrical, and genuinely dangerous.
Maryland's Ghoul King emerged in 2018 to pay thrash metal homage to horror and the occult with a stripped-down directness that cuts through pretension — just riffs, speed, and the conviction that the old ways are the right ways.
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