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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Out of Gainesville, Florida — a city with deep metal roots — Ghore has been delivering vicious thrash/death metal hybrids since 2016, channeling the ferocity of both genres into tightly wound, relentless songs.
Ghost Keeper is a thrash/groove metal band from Manchester, formed in 2020. They deliver the rhythmic punch of groove metal fused with thrash speed from one of England's most culturally vibrant cities.
Ghost of a Bullet is a Belgian five-piece from the Limburg area playing dark, melodic heavy music rooted in doom, sludge, and groove metal with a progressive edge. They released their self-titled EP in 2014 and the King of the Mountain album in 2015, both recorded at Starzone Studio.
Atlanta's Ghost Story have been blending heavy metal, power metal, and thrash since 2010, channeling the best of classic American metal into a sound that is equal parts anthem and assault. The South's storytelling tradition runs through every riff.
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.
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