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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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Gathering Darkness is a death/doom and brutal death metal band from Santander in Cantabria, Spain, active since 2000, evolving from early death/doom into a more brutal approach. The band has built a quarter-century of extreme metal from Spain's northern coast.
Gatling is a death metal and grindcore band from Heusenstamm, Germany, formed in 2010, delivering relentless extreme metal from the Frankfurt metropolitan area. The band combines death metal's heaviness with grindcore's tempo and ferocity.
Gavelkind is a doom/death metal band from Durham in northeast England, formed in 2025. Named after the medieval system of land inheritance, they bring historically informed doom/death to the university city.
Gavvakh is a melodic death/thrash/black metal band from Tver, Russia, formed in 2025 and blending three extreme metal genres into a versatile assault. The project channels multi-faceted aggression from central Russia.
Uzhhorod death metal and grindcore act active since 2009, named after a Soviet military truck and delivering grinding extremity from Ukraine's far western border region. Their relentless sonic assault combines death metal brutality with grindcore velocity.
Death metal and grindcore act from Banska Bystrica in central Slovakia, active since 2015 and delivering grinding extremity. Their rapid-fire assault combines the brutality of death metal with grindcore's relentless velocity.
Gefrierbrand is a death/thrash metal five-piece from Pforzheim, Germany, formed in 2012, whose track Nekromantik showcases their extreme metal approach combining black and death metal elements. The band features a dual-guitar lineup with members Herr S., Simon, Frosch, Torsten, and Jansen.
Gehtika is a black/death metal band from Coventry in the West Midlands, formed in 2013. They merge black and death metal from the historic Warwickshire city in the heart of England.
Gelo is a crust punk/death metal band from Treviso in the Veneto, formed in 2019. Their Italian name — meaning 'frost' — captures the cold aggression of their crust/death metal hybrid.
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