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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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GrandExit is a progressive death/thrash metal band from Västerås, Sweden, active since 2013 and blending progressive ambition with the aggression of death and thrash metal. The project pushes boundaries through compositionally complex extremity.
Grandma Death is a thrash metal and grindcore act from Saarbrucken, Germany, formed in 2024, delivering a ferocious blend of thrash aggression and grind chaos. The project's irreverent name belies its intense musical approach.
Grann is a death/thrash metal band from Poland, formed in 2023. They deliver aggressive death/thrash from the Polish underground.
Grapeshot is a thrash/groove metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2011, named after the devastating anti-personnel cannon ammunition. The band delivers riff-heavy, aggressive metal from the Spanish capital.
Scranton's Graphic Violence have been dealing in no-frills thrash metal since 2013, the kind rooted in aggression rather than pageantry. Their name is a promise, and their riffs make good on it.
Philadelphia's Grass approach sludge metal with the patient heaviness of a city that knows how to grind — slow, ugly, and purposeful. Their sound is soil and concrete, rooted firmly in the low-end traditions of the form since 2016.
Grave Altar is a black/thrash metal band from Bristol, formed in 2016. They fuse black metal darkness with thrash metal velocity from one of England's heaviest cities.
Santa Maria, California's Grave Command barrel through thrash, black metal, and crossover with tactical precision, treating genre boundaries as obstacles to be overrun. Their 2018 formation has produced a project as combative as it is purposefully chaotic.
Grave Dogger is a thrash metal and crossover band from Kronach in Upper Franconia, Germany, formed in 2008, delivering riff-heavy thrash with crossover punk energy. The band brings aggressive, fun-first thrash to the Franconian countryside.
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