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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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Texas-based GK approach progressive metal as solo craftsmanship, sculpting detailed instrumental and compositional work that prioritizes mood and structure over genre convention. A quietly prolific presence in the Lone Star underground since 2017.
Washington state's GLA operate in the most unfiltered and deliberately lo-fi end of raw black metal, stripping the genre down to static, spite, and atmosphere. A 2022 project for those who want their black metal as abrasive as possible.
Grindcore and crust act from Eskisehir formed in 2014, fusing blasting extremity with D-beat punk aggression. Their rapid-fire sonic barrages channel the confrontational energy central to both traditions.
Glace is a black metal project from Paris, France, formed in 2019, drawing on the atmospheric and raw traditions of French black metal. Their sound channels the icy aesthetics suggested by their name through bleak, aggressive compositions.
Baton Rouge's Glacial Coffin fuse black metal's cold hostility with death metal's crushing physicality, arriving at a sound that's both frozen and brutal at once. Since 2019, they've been one of Louisiana's most interesting extreme metal entries.
Glacial Dirge is a Swedish funeral doom metal project formed in 2023 and dealing in the slowest, most suffocating tempos in extreme metal. The project channels glacial despair through oppressive compositions.
Glacial Fear is a technical death/thrash metal band from Catanzaro in Calabria, active since 1993. Over three decades from southern Italy, they have established themselves as one of the country's most enduring technical extreme metal acts.
Boston's Glacial Hell combine death metal's heaviness with hardcore's relentless forward aggression, producing music that's fast, confrontational, and brutally efficient. They've been part of the Massachusetts extreme underground since 2017.
Denver's Glacial Tomb work in a devastating three-way collision of black, death, and sludge metal, and the result sounds like being buried under a collapsing mountain in the coldest possible winter. Formed in 2017, they're one of Colorado's most formidable extreme acts.
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