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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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GoatKing is a thrash metal and crossover band from Marburg, Germany, formed in 2018, blending traditional thrash riffing with crossover punk energy. The band brings mosh-pit-ready thrash and crossover to the Hessian scene.
Goatrocity is a black/thrash metal band from Brașov, Romania, unleashed in 2024. Hailing from the Transylvanian city at the foot of the Carpathians, they deliver savage blackened thrash.
Goats Rising is a melodic death/thrash/groove metal band from Brunswick (Braunschweig), Germany, active since 2009, self-describing their genre as "Ambient Goat Metal" blending various heavy subgenres. Their catalog includes Rise of the Monkeygoat (2012), Necrogoaticon (2015) on Kernkraftritter Records, and Asche (2019).
Goatspell is a black metal, speed metal, and thrash band from Rouen, Normandy, France, formed in 2015, self-described as 'Black Metal from Normandy.' Their 2018 LP Ascension of the Drakonian Beast was recorded at Château Vergogne and released on Impious Desecration Records, following earlier releases Esoterrorism and Alchemy of Terror (both 2015).
Asheville, North Carolina's Goatworship bring a ritualistic intensity to black metal steeped in the mountainous atmosphere of Appalachia. Active since 2016, they've developed a devoted following in the Southern underground.
Marrero, Louisiana's God Awful channel the Southern bayou's humidity and menace into a death/thrash attack that sounds like it's been marinating in bad intentions since 2010. Their riffs carry both the groove of the Gulf Coast and the violence of classic death-thrash.
God B.C. is a thrash metal band from Helsingborg, Sweden, active since 2013 and delivering over a decade of aggressive thrash from the Øresund coast. The project channels relentless thrash energy.
God Delusion is a death/thrash metal and metalcore band from Heidelberg, Germany, formed in 2013, blending aggressive thrash and death metal with metalcore breakdowns. The band operates in the university city's diverse heavy music scene.
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.
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