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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.
Grimsrud is a doom/stoner/sludge metal band from Salford in Greater Manchester, formed in 2025. Named after the Fargo character, they deliver heavy stoner doom from the Manchester conurbation.
Grimsteed is a black metal project from London, formed in 2020. They channel raw black metal from the British capital's underground.
Knoxville's Grimsteel fuse power metal's melodic ambition with progressive metal's structural complexity, crafting songs that move through dynamic shifts without losing the epic quality that makes the genre soar. Since 2019, they've been one of the more musically ambitious acts to emerge from the Tennessee underground.
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