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A Past Embrace (2022)
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Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Black metal project from Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine, formed in 2022 and channeling extreme darkness from the shores of the Southern Bug River. Their atmospheric intensity draws from Eastern European black metal's deep traditions.
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.
A Toledo institution since 1993, Godhead carry the weight of death metal's early tradition in every riff — slow-grinding at times, explosive at others, with the kind of staying power only decades of dedication can forge.
Godhead Machinery is a black metal band from Norrköping, Sweden, active since 2021 and delivering mechanical, relentless black metal from this East Gothland industrial city. The project channels cold, precise aggression.
Ankara black/death metal act formed in 2012, unleashing extreme darkness from Turkey's capital city. Their fusion of black and death metal traditions creates a sound rooted in both genres' most aggressive elements.
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).
Godhole is a grindcore/black metal/powerviolence band from Edinburgh, formed in 2014. They deliver short, violent bursts of genre-blending extremity from the Scottish capital.
Godhum is a death metal band from Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil, formed in 2010. The band's lineup includes André "The Hammer" on guitars and vocals, Ankh on guitars, Luiz Magrão on bass, and Fabrício Roder on drums, and they released their debut EP "Hegemony" in October 2010.
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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