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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Rising from the high plains of Amarillo, Texas, Garthok has been dealing in bone-dry stoner and doom metal since 2012 — a fitting sound for the flat, punishing landscape of the Texas panhandle. Slow, hazy, and heavy.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts brutal death metal act Gartlock has been pummeling western New England since 2019 with a dense and relentless approach to the genre's most extreme end. Uncompromising in both tempo and heaviness.
Gartraada is a band from Novomoskovsk, Russia, that evolved from atmospheric black metal origins in 2009 into melodic death metal territory, tracing an arc across extreme metal genres. The project's genre evolution reflects a restless creative vision.
Brutal Death Metal / Hardcore / Grindcore from Fort Worth.
Baltimore's technical death metal crew Garuda shares its mythological name with the Fort Worth project but delivers a distinctly different beast — intricate, precise, and rooted in technical death metal's most demanding traditions. Formed in 2018 in one of the East Coast's most fertile extreme metal scenes.
Garum is a folk metal band from Pescara on the Adriatic coast of Abruzzo, formed in 2020. Named after the fermented fish sauce of ancient Rome, they channel Italian antiquity through folk metal.
Fort Wayne, Indiana's Gary Lenaire is a solo heavy metal and hard rock project launched in 2020, channeling a classic sensibility with a personal and direct approach. The project sits comfortably in the traditional end of the spectrum, where hooks and power still carry the weight.
Boston's Gas Attack has been delivering volatile crossover thrash since 2012, tapping the city's deep punk and hardcore roots and fusing them with metal's aggression. Fast, blunt, and built to start pits.
Gas Axe is a sludge/doom metal band from Wales, formed in 2014. They deliver crushing sludge and doom metal from the Welsh underground.
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