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Featured Album
The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
MMXX - Hypa Hypa Edition (2023)
05/25 @ The Theater at MGM National Harbor, National Harbor
Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA "Day Is Done" by Nick Drake (2021)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Curse of the Crystal Coconut (Digital Deluxe) (2020)
05/26 @ Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg
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Grisaille is a black metal project from the Hauts-de-France region, formed in 2019. Their name — a French painting technique using only shades of grey — captures the monochromatic bleakness of their black metal.
Stockholm depressive black metal project formed in 2022, whose Swedish name translates to 'pig heart,' exploring themes of anguish through bleak sonic landscapes. Their desolate approach mines the most emotionally raw corners of the genre.
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Grist is a German black metal and dark ambient/dungeon synth project formed in 2015, operating across two distinct sonic modes: raw black metal and atmospheric synthesizer-driven darkness. The project bridges the gap between extreme metal and the dungeon synth underground.
Grisatre is a depressive black metal project from Foret-la-Folie in Normandy, active since 2012. Their home village name — literally 'forest of madness' — provides a fitting origin for their anguished, desolate depressive black metal.
Black metal act from the city of Martin in central Slovakia, channeling raw aggression and atmospheric darkness. Their sound draws from the primal foundations of the genre's underground traditions.
Griverion is a depressive black metal project from Valle Lomellina in the Pavia province, formed in 2020. They channel anguished black metal from the rice paddies of the Lomellina plain.
Grizhnackh is a black metal project from Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, formed in 2019. Their name references Tolkien's Uruk-hai, channeling orcish hostility through black metal from the Black Country.
Groaned Cold is a black metal project from the Skopje/Kriva Palanka area, formed in 2014. They deliver atmospheric black metal from northeastern North Macedonia.
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