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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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God Inc. is a thrash/groove/death metal band from Norway, formed in 2018. They blend three aggressive genres into a potent hybrid from the Norwegian underground.
Godbomb is a power/thrash metal band from Frankenthal, Germany, formed in 2019, combining power metal's melodic drive with thrash metal's aggression. The band operates in the Palatinate region of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Godcomplex is a death/black/thrash metal band from Dusseldorf, Germany, formed in 2015, delivering a three-pronged attack of extreme metal subgenres from the Rhine-Ruhr area. The band combines the speed of thrash, the darkness of black metal, and the brutality of death metal.
Godfall is a melodic death metal and thrash band from Jyväskylä, Finland, formed in 2024, blending melodic sensibility with the aggression of death and thrash metal. Their sound reflects the Finnish tradition of combining technical skill with visceral heaviness.
Godfather is a thrash/groove metal band from Athens, formed in 2024. They bring rhythmic thrash and groove metal energy to the Greek capital's metal scene.
The Austrian Godforsaken from Oberndorf bei Salzburg was a short-lived melodic death/thrash metal project active from 2006 to 2010, when the band renamed themselves Ghouls Come Knockin'. Their tenure produced early material in a melodeath-leaning thrash style before the lineup and direction shifted toward the death 'n' roll approach of their successor name.
Godgray is a progressive/groove/thrash metal band from Germany, formed in 2011, combining complex progressive structures with groove metal's rhythmic punch and thrash metal's speed. The band delivers technically ambitious metal with dynamic, multi-layered compositions.
Godhelmet is a one-man thrash metal project based in São Paulo, Brazil, active since 2013. The project has released a series of self-produced demos including "Runaway World" (2013), "Poison Mind" (2015), "Butterfly Bomb" (2017), and "I Am Dust" (2022).
Tucson's Godhunter fuse the swamp-thick dirge of sludge metal with the caustic aggression of thrash, building walls of sound that feel both pulverizing and politically charged. Since 2011 they've been one of the Southwest's most unrelenting acts.
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