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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
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Grums is a stoner/doom metal band from Oslo, formed in 2016. They deliver heavy stoner doom from the Norwegian capital.
Grunge is a death metal band from Aberdeen, active since 2013. Their name — a genre tag borrowed from a very different musical tradition — brings deliberate irony to their death metal from the Scottish northeast.
Grunk is a grindcore band from Rugby in Warwickshire, formed in 2020. They deliver short, violent blasts of grindcore from the English Midlands.
Grunleggender is an atmospheric black metal project from High Peak in Derbyshire, formed in 2023. Their Norwegian-derived name and Peak District setting inform atmospheric black metal drawn from the moorland landscapes of northern England.
Grunter is a sludge metal band from Ancona on the Adriatic coast, formed in 2014. They deliver heavy sludge from the Marche regional capital.
Gruntlos is a black metal project from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2022, whose name roughly translates to "without reason" in German. The project channels nihilistic black metal from the Hanseatic port city.
Grunts is a death metal band from the Riga/Skriveri area, formed in 2020. They deliver death metal from the Latvian heartland.
Grupa Krovi is a stoner metal and rock band from Mossingen, Germany, formed in 2013, whose name references the Russian phrase for "blood type" (also a famous Kino song). The band delivers fuzz-laden stoner grooves from the Swabian Jura.
Grusig is a black metal project from Bern, Switzerland, formed in 2019 by members of Chotza, blending black metal with Swiss German dialect lyrics and regional folk traditions they call "black n blues" and "black n roll." Their 2019 debut Dr Ahfang vor Misaara was released through Northern Fog Records Germany and guides listeners through atmospheric sound fields rooted in local history.
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