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A Stare Bound in Stone (2018)
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Of Stone, Wind, & Pillor (Remastered) (2021)
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Newly forged in Chicago in 2024, Ghost of Agony arrive on the death metal scene with no interest in easing anyone in gently — their name alone announces a commitment to the genre's most unflinching traditions of torment and devastation.
Ghost of Echoes is a progressive metal band from Bridgwater in Somerset, active since 2013. They bring compositional ambition to progressive metal from the West Country.
Ghost of Loss is a one-man death/doom metal project from Schwedt an der Oder, Germany, founded by Rob in 2010, built on heavy dark guitar riffs and lyrics steeped in melancholy, sadness, and despair. The project draws inspiration from Swallow the Sun and Amon Amarth, blending extreme metal subgenres into a dark, personal vision.
Ghost of Mary is a melodic death/gothic metal band from Brindisi in Puglia, formed in 2016. They blend melodic death metal with gothic atmosphere from the Adriatic coast of southern Italy.
Naperville, Illinois's Ghost of Mendea have been sharpening their melodic death and black metal hybrid since 2013, weaving icy tremolo riffs through melodic leads that hint at darker, more mythological subject matter than the Chicago suburbs might suggest.
Ghost of Mirach is a symphonic death metal band from Roermond in Limburg, formed in 2022. Named after the star in the Andromeda constellation, they deliver cosmic-themed symphonic death metal.
Slovenian melodic death/black/gothic metal project formed in 2017, fusing multiple dark metal styles into a richly layered sound. Their cross-genre approach weaves melodic sophistication through extreme metal's aggressive foundations.
Ghost of Wem is a sludge metal band from the Freiburg/Karlsruhe area in southwestern Germany, formed in 2011, with a catalog of split LPs including collaborations with Golden Gorilla and Shadow of the Torturer. The band channels massive, distorted sludge riffing from the Baden-Wurttemberg region.
San Francisco's Ghost of Winchester bring West Coast metalcore to a city better known for thrash and hardcore, their 2021 formation part of a broader resurgence of the genre on the Bay Area's crowded heavy scene. Tight, punishing, and melodically aware.
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