The Finnish death metal band Ghastly formed in 2011, since embarking on an exploration of the genre's outer limits. Coming from the self-professed notion that it works best if influenced by other music, their sound has been described as eerie, frightening and psychedelic—unusually focused on texture and atmosphere, it adds a layer of otherworldliness to death metal chaos. Since debuting in 2011 with the EP Death Is Present, they've released three acclaimed studio albums, the latest of which is 2021's Mercurial Passages.