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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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Grymheart is a melodic death and folk metal band from Budapest, Hungary, active since 2017 and weaving folk melodies and traditional instrumentation into aggressive melodic death metal frameworks. The project bridges Hungarian folk heritage with Scandinavian-influenced melodeath.
Grymt is a death metal and grindcore act from Paris, France, delivering ferocious blasts of extreme music rooted in the traditions of both genres. The project channels unrelenting intensity through its grinding approach to heaviness.
Gryph is a heavy/groove metal band from Rostock on Germany's Baltic coast, formed in 2015, blending traditional heavy metal with groove-laden riffing. The band brings heavyweight metal to the Mecklenburg seaport.
Grzmot is a Polish black metal project formed in 2022, whose name means "thunder" in Polish, delivering storming black metal aggression. The project channels the elemental fury suggested by its name.
Grab is a Bavarian black metal project formed in 2021, whose name means "grave" in German (spelled with a Celtic-influenced accent). The project channels cold, grave-themed black metal from the Bavarian underground.
Gratfall is a Bavarian post-black metal project formed in 2025, whose name combines the German word for "ridge" with "fall." The project is among the newest additions to the growing Bavarian post-black metal scene.
Grå Ø is a black metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2016 and whose Scandinavian-inspired name meaning "Grey Island" reflects its cold, desolate approach to the genre. The project channels Nordic-influenced black metal from Moscow.
Grasind is a black metal act from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2018, whose name roughly translates to "grey mind" in Danish. The project channels cold, atmospheric black metal from the Danish capital.
Grat Strigoi is a depressive black metal project from Glasgow, formed in 2019. Named after the Romanian undead creature, they channel Eastern European folklore through depressive black metal from Scotland's largest city.
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