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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)
05/09 @ Mr Smalls Theatre, Millvale
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Gravesoil is a Finnish black metal project active since 2014, exploring the dark, hostile atmospheres and raw sonic textures central to the Finnish black metal underground. Their approach emphasizes lo-fi production and primal intensity.
Los Angeles black metal act Gravespawn have been conjuring grim, lo-fi darkness from within the sprawl of Southern California since 2016. Their sound retreats from the city's glare into shadow, constructing something austere and deliberately hostile.
Colossal Death / Doom Metal out of Texas.
Gravestench is a Finnish black metal band formed in 2021, featuring Kunt Ejakulatörr on vocals and Koffinfukker on instruments, with their debut Will to Madness released on River Valley Cult on a limited urine-colored cassette. Their raw, first-wave-influenced sound channels deliberately provocative and lo-fi extreme metal aesthetics.
Gravestone is a heavy/progressive metal band from Illertissen, Germany, with roots in progressive rock, later evolving into a heavier sound. The band has navigated a stylistic journey from progressive rock origins to full-fledged heavy metal.
Gravetaker is a black and death metal band from Oulu, Finland, formed in 2017, merging the ferocity of both genres into a punishing hybrid. Their sound combines black metal's atmospheric hostility with death metal's crushing weight.
Gravety is an epic heavy/thrash metal band from Saarbrucken, Germany, formed in 2012, blending epic, grandiose heavy metal themes with thrash aggression. The band evolved from an epic thrash approach toward a more purely epic heavy metal sound.
Florida's Graveview have been staring into the death metal abyss since 2018, their sound shaped by the state's long and storied tradition of brutality. Straightforward and unornamented, they prioritize the visceral over the cerebral.
Devastating Symphonic Deathcore out of Texas.
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