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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Sevnica-based act that transformed from thrash metal origins into a stoner metal direction, reflecting the pull of heavy groove over speed. Their stylistic evolution demonstrates the gravitational force of low-tuned, fuzz-drenched riffing.
Grrrmba is a blackened doom/sludge metal band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2016 by members of Jack, Long Pig, My First Knife, and other Hungarian bands. Their releases include Imminent, Coalescence, Embodiment, and a split with Boru.
Grub Nap is a sludge metal/hardcore band from Leeds, formed in 2023. They deliver crushing sludge with hardcore intensity from the West Yorkshire city.
Grudge Connection is an industrial metal band from Rome, formed in 2015. They deliver mechanized, heavy industrial metal from the Italian capital.
Grudzień is a Polish black metal project formed in 2025, whose name means "December" in Polish, channeling the cold and darkness of the year's final month through raw black metal. The project emerges from the newest wave of Polish black metal.
Gruel is a sludge/doom metal band from Bradford in West Yorkshire, formed in 2017. Their name — evoking thin, unappetizing gruel — contrasts with the thick, heavy sludge doom they deliver.
Gruesome is a brutal death metal band from Fredrikstad, formed in 2015. They deliver visceral brutal death metal from the southeastern Norwegian city.
Dallas's Gruesome Fate have been a fixture in the Texas death metal underground since 2017, delivering the kind of dark, punishing material that slots naturally alongside the state's long and brutal extreme metal tradition. The name is a promise they keep.
Gruesome Gertie is an atmospheric doom and post-metal band from Wrocław, Poland, active since 2017 and crafting expansive, emotionally charged heaviness. The project blends doom's crushing weight with post-metal's dynamic, cinematic scope.
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