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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Gardenjia is an experimental black metal project from Brindisi in Puglia, active since 2011, having evolved from earlier djent/experimental origins. Their stylistic transformation reflects a deepening commitment to extreme metal from southern Italy.
Louisville, Kentucky's Gardens of Grey is a freshly formed project threading together doom, death, and post-metal into something mournful and expansive. Active since 2024, they reflect Louisville's long tradition of heavy, emotionally dense underground music.
Gardens of Grief is a melodic death metal band from Germany, formed in 2009, channeling the Gothenburg tradition of melodic aggression with harmonic guitar leads and powerful growls. The band takes its name from the classic At the Gates EP, signaling their allegiance to Swedish melodeath.
Gardens of Hell is a death metal band from Redditch in the West Midlands, formed in 2021. They channel death metal aggression from the Worcestershire town in the English Midlands.
Gardens of Stone is a progressive groove/sludge metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2023, combining complex progressive structures with groove and sludge metal's weight. The band brings a multi-layered, heavy approach to Barcelona's diverse metal scene.
Hailing from Normal, Illinois, Garg deals in raw, no-frills black metal that embraces the underground's most primitive and unpolished instincts. Formed in 2022, they work in the stripped-back style that prioritizes atmosphere through harshness over any kind of technical refinement.
Gargamax is a heavy and industrial metal band from Vaasa, Finland, active since 2009, combining mechanized heaviness with traditional metal aggression. Their sound fuses the cold precision of industrial metal with the weight and impact of heavy metal.
Connecticut's Gargamel marries symphonic grandeur to black metal extremity, building elaborate, orchestral arrangements atop a still-venomous core. The project has been active since 2010, amassing a catalog that tilts theatrical without abandoning its harder impulses.
Gargan is a blackened death metal band from Corato in the Bari province of Puglia, formed in 2016. They deliver aggressive blackened death metal from the olive-growing heartland of southern Italy.
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