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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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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania's Goat Wizard conjure thick, fuzz-drenched doom that moves at glacial pace and hits like a stone wall. Since 2014, they've embraced the heaviest traditions of stoner doom with occult flair and unhurried conviction.
Pennsylvania's Grabesruhe — a German word for the silence of the grave — crafts raw black metal draped in lo-fi menace and cold isolation. Since 2019 the project has pursued the bleakest end of the underground with uncompromising hostility.
Out of Altoona, Pennsylvania, Grampian arrived in 2022 with a black metal sound rooted in geographic isolation and compositional austerity. There's a rugged, unadorned quality to what they do that suits the working-class landscape they come from.
Scranton's Graphic Violence have been dealing in no-frills thrash metal since 2013, the kind rooted in aggression rather than pageantry. Their name is a promise, and their riffs make good on it.
Philadelphia's Grass approach sludge metal with the patient heaviness of a city that knows how to grind — slow, ugly, and purposeful. Their sound is soil and concrete, rooted firmly in the low-end traditions of the form since 2016.
Pennsylvania's Gravecrawler drag themselves through the subterranean depths of old-school death metal with genuine menace. Active since 2021, they move through the mire with the patient, rotting momentum the name implies.
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Pennsylvania's Gutshovel emerged from McKean County in 2024 with a death metal approach that favors raw aggression over technical showmanship — blunt, brutal, and grounded in the genre's most primal impulses. The name tells you everything about their aesthetic priorities.
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