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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Chernivtsi black metal project launched in 2024, whose name evokes the spruce forests of the Carpathian region. Their sound carries the raw intensity and atmospheric depth associated with Eastern European black metal.
Grant National is an experimental stoner metal and rock band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2011, pushing the boundaries of stoner metal with experimental elements. The band operates at the creative edge of the Rhineland's stoner and heavy rock scene.
Monterey Bay's Granted Earth have spent over a decade weaving progressive ambition into the fabric of sludge, stoner, and post-metal, arriving at something genuinely exploratory. Their music moves between crushing weight and expansive, atmospheric drift with rare intentionality.
Grantig is a melodic black metal project from Thuringia, Germany, formed in 2022, whose name is Bavarian dialect for "grumpy" or "irritable." The project channels melodic black metal with a distinctly German character.
Joliet, Illinois death metal outfit Granulated have been pulverizing since 2020, their name suggesting exactly what they intend to do to their listeners. Rooted in the Midwest's no-frills brutality, they trade in straight-ahead, guts-first death metal with no interest in subtlety.
Bergenfield, New Jersey's Granuloma pursue the atmospheric and post-black metal strains of the genre with textural density and emotional weight. Since 2018 they've constructed a sound that festers slowly, like the tissue condition they're named after.
Grape Seed is a death metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2021, delivering death metal from the capital's thriving extreme music underground. The band brings unexpected contrast between their botanical name and brutal sound.
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.
Graphic Nature are a Kent-based nu metalcore band whose music turns psychological pressure into a dense, hostile sound. Emerging at the end of the 2010s, the group developed a style built from low-tuned riffs, industrial texture, electronic noise, screamed vocals, and breakdowns that often feel abrupt and suffocating. Their records a mind waiting to die and Who Are You When No One Is Watching? show a band focused on anxiety, trauma, dissociation, and the darker mechanics of self-perception. Songs such as "White Noise," "Killing Floor," "Into the Dark," "Sour," and "Human" connect nu metal's rhythmic bounce with the weight and precision of contemporary metalcore. Graphic Nature fit metal scope directly through heaviness, genre, and live context, while the electronic elements sharpen the sense of unease rather than softening it. Their strongest material is claustrophobic by design. The guitars hit like machinery, the vocals sound cornered, and the production leaves little air, making the band's music feel less like release than confrontation with the inside of a panic spiral.
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