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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Heavy Death Metal out of Texas.
Los Angeles stoner metal outfit Ganjashaman follow the smoke-filled, riff-heavy path that the genre demands, trading in fuzz-soaked grooves and hazy psychedelic weight since 2018. They fit naturally into Southern California's long tradition of heavy, sun-baked psychedelia.
Ganjubatronic is a sludge/drone/doom metal band from Warsaw, formed in 2023. They deliver crushing, slow-motion heaviness from the Polish capital.
Named for the King of Evil himself, Escondido, California's Gannondorf have been playing raw, uncompromising black metal since 2010 with the single-minded ferocity their namesake would demand. Over a decade into their existence, they remain a committed presence in the Southern California underground.
Kansas City's Ganoderma — named for the medicinal mushroom genus — bring a melodic thrash sensibility to the Missouri heavy metal scene, balancing hook-driven songwriting with serious riff weight since 2018. They're one of the more interesting crossover acts in the Midwest's mid-sized city underground.
Ferndale, Michigan's Ganon wallow in sludge metal's most suffocating tendencies, piling up dissonance and down-tempo misery in the shadow of Detroit's post-industrial landscape. Since 2016, they've been one of the heavier and more deliberately oppressive acts working out of the metro area.
Ganondorf is a black metal project from Nulvi in the Sassari province of Sardinia, formed in 2019. Named after the villain of the Legend of Zelda, they channel black metal from one of Sardinia's most remote northern villages.
Out of Evansville, Indiana, Gaol wallows in the harsh intersection of crust punk and sludge metal, piling filth-encrusted riffs onto a foundation of hardcore-informed aggression. Active since 2015, the band brings a Midwest working-class rawness to a sound that refuses to clean up or slow down.
Gaoth is a one-person atmospheric and post-black metal project from Wexford, Ireland, created entirely by sole member F.S. since 2016. The project's two albums, Dying Season's Glory (2016) and The Obsidian Dialogue (2021), span over seventy minutes of cosmic, transcendent black metal blending folk, neofolk, and progressive elements.
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