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Panic (2020)
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Grey Everlasting (2022)
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Greed/Conjure Life (2024)
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Philadelphia's Geisha Dissection specialize in the pummeling intersection of slam and brutal death metal, a style they have pursued with single-minded focus since forming in 2019. Slow breakdowns and guttural extremity define their approach.
Erie, Pennsylvania's Gelatin Skeleton arrived in 2022 with a name that suggests something between horror and dark humor, and their death metal follows through on that sensibility. Ugly, visceral, and unapologetically underground.
Pittsburgh's Genghis Khan draw from heavy, power, and speed metal traditions to build music with scope and ambition, active since 2014. Classic influences run strong here, delivered with the no-nonsense energy of Pennsylvania's steel-city underground.
Pennsylvania's Germ U.S.A. plays crossover thrash with the manic energy of hardcore punks who discovered Slayer and never looked back. Active since 2022, their sound is fast, grimy, and entirely indifferent to polish.
Philadelphia's Ghazi has been at it since 2008, delivering straightforward death metal with the tenacity of a band that has outlasted most of its contemporaries. Their durability speaks to a raw, honest commitment to the music.
Philadelphia's Girsu — named for an ancient Sumerian city — approach progressive black metal with a conceptual depth that matches the civilizational weight of their inspiration. Since 2021, they've been mapping interior and historical darkness simultaneously.
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania's Gloominous Doom is one of the underground's stranger propositions — progressive death and thrash metal with recorded ska influences woven in, making for something genuinely difficult to categorize and harder to ignore. They've been at it since 2015.
Pennsylvania's Glorious Descent merges black metal's nocturnal fury with the swaggering rock energy of black 'n' roll, making for something more propulsive and grime-coated than pure corpse-paint orthodoxy. Active since 2023 and already sounding like a band with a clear identity.
Pennsylvania's Gnargoyles have carved out a grimy niche where crossover thrash collides head-on with death metal ferocity. Their sound is ugly, fast, and unrepentant — part pit fodder, part throat-ripping carnage.
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