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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Pursuit of Vikings: Live at Summer Breeze (Main Stage) (2018)
05/09 @ Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Gulu Locus is a doom/death metal band from Prato, Tuscany, active since 1999. Over a quarter century of crushing doom/death from the Tuscan textile city.
Gum-Hen is a death metal and groove band from the Nortorf/Eisendorf area in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, formed in 2012, evolving from hardcore origins into a heavier death metal sound with groove influences. The band brings extreme metal to Germany's northernmost state.
Gunja is a death metal/hardcore band from Perugia, active since 2006. They merge death metal aggression with hardcore intensity from the Umbrian capital.
Gunpowder is a death/thrash metal band from Ostrava, Czech Republic, formed in 2020, combining the speed of thrash with the heaviness of death metal in the industrial Silesian capital. The band channels the aggressive spirit of Ostrava's storied metal underground.
Gunsen is a melodic death and power metal band from Toruń, Poland, active since 2016 and blending melodic death metal's aggression with power metal's soaring energy from the historic Vistula city. The project bridges two melodic extremes of the metal spectrum.
Gunt is a death/thrash metal band from Weymouth in Dorset, active since 2012. They deliver aggressive death/thrash from the English south coast.
Kharkiv death metal act formed in 2014, delivering brutal extremity from Ukraine's second-largest city. Their punishing sound contributes to Kharkiv's reputation as a hub for extreme music despite the region's ongoing challenges.
Brutal death metal project from the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea, formed in 2021 and delivering guttural punishment from one of Sweden's most isolated locales. Their remote island origins lend an appropriately harsh edge to their extreme sonic vision.
Odesa-based project launched in 2025, merging black metal, death metal, doom metal, and grindcore into an eclectic extreme metal fusion. Their genre-spanning approach defies easy categorization through sheer stylistic ambition.
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