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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Ghostrider is a black/heavy/thrash metal band from Genoa, formed in 2024. They blend three classic metal traditions from the Ligurian port city.
Evansville, Kentucky's Ghosts at Sea have been sailing dark black metal waters since 2013, channeling the landlocked Midwest's sense of lostness into a sound that is windswept, raw, and unmoored. Black metal from a state with no coastline is its own kind of haunting.
Ghosts from the Past is a heavy metal band from Rauma, Finland, formed in 2022, channeling old-school metal energy with a raw, no-nonsense approach. Their sound draws on the classic Finnish heavy metal tradition of direct, riff-driven heaviness.
Ghosts in Gold is a band from Bath that evolved from black metal origins into death metal, formed in 2020. Their stylistic shift reflects the restless creative energy of the Somerset city's underground metal scene.
Ghosts of Atlantis is an extreme symphonic metal/metalcore band from Ipswich in Suffolk, formed in 2020. They merge symphonic grandeur with extreme metal intensity from the East Anglian county town.
Littleton, Colorado's Ghosts of Glaciers have been mapping the intersection of blackened metal and post-metal's expansive architecture since 2010 — music that moves like slow ice, grinding and reshaping everything beneath it with patient, immense force.
Charlotte's Ghosts of Roan, formed in 2023, take their name from the misty Appalachian highlands and weave black metal savagery through threads of folk melody — a young band already locating something ancient and place-specific in their sound.
Purcellville, Virginia's Ghosts of the Mud bring the visceral, down-tuned fury of deathcore and death metal out of the Northern Virginia countryside since 2022, their music as heavy as the clay soil their name invokes.
Ghosts of the Void is a metalcore band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2019, blending metalcore, thrash, and melodic death metal across their 2019 debut Against the Tide. The five-track release delivers concise, hard-hitting compositions exploring themes of resistance and perseverance.
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