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A Stare Bound in Stone (2018)
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Of Stone, Wind, & Pillor (Remastered) (2021)
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Oklahoma City's Great American Desert channel the vast, punishing emptiness of the plains into slow, suffocating doom metal. Since 2012, their music has carried the weight of a landscape with nothing on the horizon and no reason to hurry.
Great American Ghost channel the fury of Boston's hardcore scene through a metallic lens that incorporates death metal heaviness and nihilistic rage. Formed in 2011, vocalist Ethan Moses leads the band through suffocating albums like 'Power Through Terror' and 'Torture World,' which tackle American dysfunction with a scorched-earth intensity. Their sound sits at the intersection of hardcore punk's urgency and death metal's brutality, creating something genuinely unsettling.
Great Attractor is an instrumental progressive metal band from Mérida, Spain, formed in 2013, fusing styles ranging from stoner and sludge to avant-garde and post-rock. Their release Live at the Bujío (2024) captures their hour-long uninterrupted audiovisual performance across twelve compositions.
Sanford, Florida's Great Awakening arrived in 2015 with a brand of thrash that leans hard into speed and precision, uninterested in trends and laser-focused on keeping the genre's classic attack alive. Tightly wound riffs and an aggressive delivery define their approach.
Pagan black metal act from Nizhyn formed in 2022, infusing black metal's raw aggression with themes rooted in pre-Christian Slavic traditions. Their approach connects extreme metal's intensity to ancient cultural heritage.
Great Master is a power metal band from Mestre near Venice, formed in 2018. They deliver energetic power metal from the Venetian mainland.
Washington State's Great Spirit have been crafting raw, atmospheric black metal since 2015, drawing on the brooding mysticism of the Pacific Northwest to sculpt something cold and elemental. Their music feels less performed than summoned from the forest itself.
Nashville's Great Unclean Ones drag doom and sludge through the gutter with deliberate, punishing force — riffs that move like slow-rolling thunder and vocals soaked in filth. Since 2019 they've made miserable music in the best possible sense.
Great Vast Forest is a black metal band from Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil, founded by Surgath in 1994 and one of the earliest acts in the Brazilian black metal underground. Describing their sound as "Barbarian Black Metal" — aggressive and cold yet melodic — the band released their debut album "Battletales and Songs of Steel" in 2002, followed by "From the Dark Times to the Black Metal Legions" in 2017.
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