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Irrational Pull (Deluxe) (2020)
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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Grimoria is a black metal band from Toulouse, France, formed in 2023 and evolving toward death/black metal. They represent the newest wave of Toulouse's expanding extreme metal underground.
Grimorio is a gothic/heavy metal band from Catania, Sicily, formed in 2025. Their Italian name — meaning 'grimoire' or spell book — signals the occult atmosphere of their gothic metal from the foot of Mount Etna.
Grimorium is a doom metal band from Wrexham in North Wales, active since 2007. They deliver heavy doom from the Welsh-English border region.
Grimorium Verum is a death/thrash metal band from Smederevska Palanka, Serbia, active since 2007. Named after an 18th-century grimoire, they merge occult themes with aggressive riffing.
Grimorte is a black/doom metal project from England, formed in 2020. They merge black metal darkness with doom metal's crushing pace from the English underground.
Grimpen Mire is a sludge/doom metal band from Birmingham, active since 2012. Named after the treacherous bog in Sherlock Holmes' The Hound of the Baskervilles, they deliver swamp-heavy sludge doom from England's second city.
Grimpha is a death metal band from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, formed in 2015. The band released the demo "Induced Hate" in 2018, establishing themselves within the Brazilian underground death metal scene.
Grimsever is a black metal project from Herne in the Ruhr Valley, Germany, formed in 2023, channeling raw black metal from the post-industrial landscape. The project is a newer entry in the densely populated Ruhr black metal scene.
Grimskull is a heavy metal band from Alfoten/Bremanger on the far western Norwegian coast, active since 2012. They deliver heavy metal from one of Norway's most remote coastal communities.
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