A distinctive occult band blending extreme symphonic dissonant timbres with ritualistic
atmposphere.
Band Bio
Grotesco Karma was founded in 2024 in Athens by George Constantine Kratsas and Nikitas Mandolas. After many years of collaboration within the framework of George’s personal project, in which they released three instrumental albums, the two creators decided to transfer their shared vision into a new, autonomous artistic entity.
The band’s artistic identity focuses on grotesque and avant-garde metal compositions, imbued with traditional and occult aesthetic elements, where the ritualistic, the unfamiliar and the distorted coexist as organic components of the music and the overall narrative.
In January 2025, Grotesco Karma released their debut full-length album entitled “Devil’s Menuet”, available digitally via Bandcamp and soon on all major digital platforms. The single was preceded by the release of a single featuring Francesco Paoli (Fleshgod Apocalypse) on vocals.
Grotesco Karma participated as the main support act for Imperial Age on the European tour “Return of the Atlanteans”, performing a total of 23 shows across Europe. In December 2025, they completed their own headline tour, which included 12 concerts in the Balkans, mainly in Romania and Bulgaria.
Devil’s Menuet
Devils Menuet is an album that consciously moves outside of normative aesthetic boundaries, adopting a grotesque and avant-garde approach to both its musical writing and its narrative universe. Stylistically, it draws on dark symphonic idioms, extreme tonalities and deconstructed forms, where tension, dissonance and asymmetrical rhythms function not as gimmicks, but as dramatic tools. The music does not seek alignment or “harmonic catharsis”, but a constant sense of distortion and suspense.
Conceptually, Devils Menuet articulates a ritual narrative of decadence, blasphemy and existential distortion, where characters and symbols appear in grotesque versions: exaggerated, repulsive, often ironically theatrical. The grotesque here does not function as shock, but as an aesthetic language that reveals the crack between the sacred and the profane, the human and the monstrous.
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