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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
05/09 @ Mr Smalls Theatre, Millvale
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Des Moines's Ghostbusters are not here to save the city from spectral infestation — they are here to thrash it to rubble, a crossover/thrash outfit active since 2016 whose VHS-era aesthetic translates into a full-speed, no-budget assault on everything respectable.
Ghostheart Nebula is a melodic doom/death metal band from Milan, formed in 2018. They blend melodic sensitivity with the crushing weight of doom/death metal from the Lombard capital.
Kaliningrad power metal act formed in 2010, delivering soaring melodies and anthemic compositions from Russia's westernmost city. Their sound channels the triumphant energy and vocal-driven grandeur central to the power metal tradition.
New York's Ghostly occupy the furthest, most industrial reaches of drone metal — textural, machine-brained, and built from frequencies more felt than heard. Active since 2019, they traffic in oppressive sound design that dissolves the line between music and environment.
Ghostly Aerie Coven is a black metal project from Casale Monferrato in the Alessandria province of Piedmont, formed in 2021. Their evocative name suggests the haunted, elevated atmosphere of their black metal from the Monferrato hills.
Ghostnail is a symphonic gothic metal band from Västerås, Sweden, weaving orchestral grandeur and gothic atmospherics into heavy metal from central Sweden. The project delivers emotionally rich, cinematic metal.
Ghostname is a death metal and grindcore act from Soro, Denmark, formed in 2012, combining death metal's heaviness with grindcore's frantic pace from the Danish countryside. The band has maintained over a decade of extreme metal output.
Ghostorm is a technical death metal band from Vilnius, active since 2004. Two decades of technically ambitious death metal from the Lithuanian capital.
Ghostreaper is a heavy metal band from Dusseldorf, Germany, formed in 2010, delivering traditional heavy metal from the Rhine-Ruhr metropolis. The band channels classic metal with over a decade of presence in the North Rhine-Westphalia scene.
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