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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Garden of Bones is a progressive and melodic death metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, active since 2018 and blending progressive ambition with the melodeath tradition that made Sweden famous. The project channels Stockholm's rich extreme metal heritage.
Lake County, Illinois quartet Garden of Darkness blends gothic gloom, power metal ambition, and progressive architecture into a dramatic and ornate style that emerged in 2020. Equal parts darkness and grandeur, they occupy an unusually wide corner of heavy music.
Garden of Delight is a death/doom metal band from Olkusz in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, formed in 2016. They deliver crushing death/doom from the historic silver-mining town.
Garden of Eyes is a death metal band from Norwich in eastern England, formed in 2020. They deliver old-school death metal from the historic Norfolk capital.
Garden of Gods is a melodic death/doom metal band from Athens, formed in 2016. They blend melodic death metal sensibility with doom's crushing weight from the Greek capital.
Active since 2008 in Urfahr-Umgebung, Upper Austria, Garden of Grief craft atmospheric black metal grounded in melancholy and desolation, with an extensive catalog stretching from early splits and demos through full-lengths such as Philosophies of Bleak Landscapes and Of Shattered Dreams and Nostalgic Melancholy. Their album titles map a consistent lyrical world of bleak landscapes, sorrow, and fading light.
Garden of Nurgle is a French raw black metal project formed in 2021, tagged with the motto 'Noise, Plague, Chaos,' delivering instrumental black metal through extended compositions. Their debut VII features two sprawling tracks of raw, atmospheric black metal totaling nearly nineteen minutes.
Garden of Sadness is a depressive black metal project from Siemianowice Slaskie in Upper Silesia, active since 2002. Over two decades of anguished black metal from the industrial Silesian conurbation.
One of the more enduring acts in the American melodic death metal underground, Gaithersburg, Maryland's Garden of Shadows has been weaving atmospheric grandeur into aggressive death metal since the early 2000s. Their sound leans cinematic without ever losing its teeth.
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