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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Goretopsy is a death metal/grindcore band from Oslo, formed in 2022. They deliver grinding death metal from the Norwegian capital.
Goretrust is a death metal band from Budapest, formed in 2021. They channel old-school death metal from the Hungarian capital.
Gorevenge is a melodic black/death metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2015 and blending melodic sensibilities with the ferocity of black and death metal. The project delivers a decade of extreme metal from the Russian capital.
Goreweeg are a doom metal band from Carinthia, Austria, operating as an independent underground act with a modest but dedicated following. They have released at least one album and an EP, with Tomy Kollmann among their members, and their music sits within the slow, heavy tradition of European doom metal.
Gorewinter is a black metal project from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2022, channeling frigid Nordic atmospheres and raw aggression. Their sound embodies the hostile, frost-bitten aesthetic central to Finnish black metal.
Gorezone is a brutal death metal band from Oldenburg, Germany, active since 2003, delivering over two decades of punishing death metal from Lower Saxony. The band is a longstanding fixture of the northwestern German extreme metal scene.
Gorgantuan is a drone/doom metal band from Bristol, formed in 2014. They channel massive, glacially slow drone doom from Bristol's fertile heavy music scene.
Connecticut's Gorge have been filling the space between doom and sludge with dense, slow-rolling heaviness since 2015 — Simsbury's contribution to a tradition of New England bands that take the heavy in heavy metal seriously.
Sonoma, California's Gorge blend death metal's mordant aggression with doom's unhurried pace since 2015, cultivating an atmosphere of rot and weight amid the wine country's rolling hills. The contrast feels entirely intentional.
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