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AntiFragile (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Gallina Negra is a progressive thrash metal band from Tiszaujvaros, Hungary, active since 1999. Over a quarter century, they have delivered technically ambitious thrash metal from the industrial city in eastern Hungary.
Gallower is a black/thrash metal band from Tychy in Silesia, formed in 2015. They fuse black metal darkness with thrash velocity from the industrial south.
There's a fitting darkness to a black metal band forming in Salem, Massachusetts — and Gallows, active since 2021, leans into that cursed history with cold, uncompromising riffs and bleak atmosphere. Their music feels native to the witch-trial soil it grew from.
Gallows Rites is a black/thrash metal project from Portugal, formed in 2023 and channeling the aggressive crossroads where black metal's darkness meets thrash's velocity. The project delivers fierce extremity from the Iberian underground.
Warwick, Rhode Island's Galvanized fuse thrash metal aggression with metalcore's kinetic energy, channeling the tight-wound intensity of the New England scene into a punishing hybrid. Since 2017 they've been one of the harder-hitting acts in the Ocean State underground.
Gama Bomb is a thrash metal band from Newry, Northern Ireland, formed in 2008 and signed to Prosthetic Records. With their humorous, horror-and-sci-fi-themed approach — self-described as 'thrash metal from Ireland, underpants from China' — the five-piece has become one of the most internationally recognized Irish metal exports.
Gambanteinn is a black metal band from Turku, Finland, active since 2010, describing their sound as 'Wrathful Thursian Black Metal.' Their debut Nielevä Pimeys (2014) was written and performed by Þjazi with guitars by J. Riihimäki, channeling Nordic fury through five tracks of fierce, mythologically rooted black metal.
Eugene, Oregon's Game Over have been playing speed-laced thrash with old-school conviction since 2014, worshipping at the altar of fast picking and punishing rhythms. They keep the Pacific Northwest's thrash tradition burning without nostalgia getting in the way.
Staten Island's Gamma Ghouls started in hardcore and evolved into a crossover thrash juggernaut that captures the frenetic spirit of both worlds. Since 2014, they've brought the NYC borough's no-bullshit attitude to the pit with maximum velocity.
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