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People Watching (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
11/14 @ The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura
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Among the Shadows (2024)
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God Is Dead is a death metal band from Chisinau, Moldova, formed in 2020. They deliver death metal from the Moldovan capital.
God Macabre is a death metal band from Vålberg, Sweden, active since 2014 and contributing to Sweden's legendary death metal lineage. The project channels the primal energy of classic Swedish death metal.
Izmir metalcore act formed in 2011, fusing aggressive breakdowns with melodic intensity from Turkey's third-largest city. Their high-energy approach channels the genre's balance of fury and accessibility.
Groove and death metal act from Kranj active since 2005, bringing two decades of crushing rhythmic heaviness from Slovenia's fourth-largest city. Their long-running career has allowed them to forge a sound that balances groove metal's weight with death metal's ferocity.
God Shaped Devil is a groove/melodic death metal band from Manchester, formed in 2016. They blend the rhythmic punch of groove metal with melodic death metal's twin-guitar approach from the Mancunian underground.
God Syndrome is a melodic death metal band from Samara, Russia, active since 2013 and delivering Scandinavian-influenced melodeath from the Volga region. Over a decade of activity reflects a dedicated approach to the genre.
GOD The Barbarian Horde is a multi-genre extreme metal band from Iași, Romania, active since 1997. Blending death, doom, folk, and gothic metal, they are among the longest-running acts in Romania's eastern Moldavian metal scene.
God's Storm is a heavy metal band from Caracas, Venezuela, formed in 2019 and signed to Amuse Records. The band released their debut full-length "Wisdom in the Shadow" in December 2020, a nine-track album blending power metal and progressive metal with themes of spiritual consciousness and mysticism. Their 2022 single "Powerful" continued the band's output on the Venezuelan metal scene.
Suffocating Sludge / Doom Metal from Houston.
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