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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Grisatre is a depressive black metal project from Foret-la-Folie in Normandy, active since 2012. Their home village name — literally 'forest of madness' — provides a fitting origin for their anguished, desolate depressive black metal.
Black metal act from the city of Martin in central Slovakia, channeling raw aggression and atmospheric darkness. Their sound draws from the primal foundations of the genre's underground traditions.
Griverion is a depressive black metal project from Valle Lomellina in the Pavia province, formed in 2020. They channel anguished black metal from the rice paddies of the Lomellina plain.
Grizhnackh is a black metal project from Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, formed in 2019. Their name references Tolkien's Uruk-hai, channeling orcish hostility through black metal from the Black Country.
GrizzleRoot is a stoner metal/rock band from England, formed in 2021. They deliver fuzz-drenched stoner metal from the English underground.
Grizzly is a heavy metal band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2004, delivering traditional heavy metal with over two decades of presence in the Czech scene. The band brings classic metal riffing and songwriting to Prague's diverse metal landscape.
Linköping-based progressive sludge metal outfit formed in 2014, merging the crushing weight of sludge with progressive rock's structural ambition. Their expansive compositions push beyond conventional heaviness into territory that rewards patient listening.
Groak is a sludge/doom metal band from Leeds, formed in 2015. Their name — an archaic British dialect word meaning to stare silently — matches the brooding, oppressive weight of their sludge doom from West Yorkshire.
Los Angeles's Groamville have been rolling out heavy stoner rock and metal since 2014, favoring down-tuned grooves, fuzzed-out riffs, and a relaxed, head-nodding pace that serves the music's hypnotic power. They're a reliable name in the city's well-populated desert rock underground.
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