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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Out of Bellevue, Nebraska, Ghost Tower have been fusing doom's crushing weight with heavy and thrash metal's forward momentum since 2016 — looming, powerful, and built to last, like the water towers that dot the Great Plains horizon.
Ghost Trail is a progressive black metal band from Oslo, active since 2012. They push black metal into progressive territory from the Norwegian capital.
Ghost Voyage is a death-doom metal band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2009, featuring vocalist Teppo Hyttinen, dual guitars, keyboards, and guest strings for an orchestral dimension. Their 2013 debut Endless Oceans spans eight tracks over sixty-six minutes, following a narrative arc of homecoming, loss, and apocalyptic imagery across sweeping, atmospheric compositions.
Staten Island's Ghost Walking arrived in 2019 with a thrash metal attack shaped by New York City's confrontational energy — sharp, sardonic, and lit up with the borough's particular brand of aggressive pride. Thrash from the forgotten borough.
Ghost Warfare is a progressive and alternative metal band from Haskovo, Bulgaria, formed in 2014, blending symphonic and gothic metal elements with a progressive edge. Their catalog includes Saaren Gammar, Dusk Reloaded, Outer Rim I: Beyond the Veil, and Alternate Endings.
From Santa Rosa, California's wine country and wildfire smoke, Ghost Witch have been casting heavy doom spells since 2016 — slow, hex-laden riffs that linger like smoke on still air and draw from the occult undercurrent running through California's heavy scene.
Ghost:Whale is a Brussels-based experimental doom trio built around the unusual lineup of two bass guitars, drums, and samples, with no traditional guitar. Their 2024 double album Dive:Two spans two hours of hypnotic, cosmic doom, recorded at Riverside Studio in Hampteau and co-released by labels across Europe and North America.
Seattle's Ghostblood have been trading in death/thrash metal since 2015, combining the precision and brutality of death metal with thrash's kinetic urgency in a way that fits the Pacific Northwest's tradition of technically focused extremity.
Hailing from Kirksville, Missouri, GhostBox are a doom metal act whose name evokes both paranormal communication devices and the sonic isolation their music inhabits — slow, heavy, and utterly remote, born in a small Midwestern college town and pointed inward.
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