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Gizzah is a stoner/doom metal band from Ílhavo, Portugal, active since 2022 and delivering heavy, fuzz-laden riffs from the Atlantic coast. The project channels the crushing weight of doom through a stoner metal haze.
Glacial Dirge is a Swedish funeral doom metal project formed in 2023 and dealing in the slowest, most suffocating tempos in extreme metal. The project channels glacial despair through oppressive compositions.
Gladius Dei is a doom/heavy metal project from Muhldorf am Inn in rural South Germany, formed in 2021, self-described as doom metal from a rural area. Their releases The King Is Dead EP and Long Gone Ghosts channel classic doom and heavy metal with a stripped-down, countryside aesthetic.
Formed in 2013 in Traunstein on the Austrian-Bavarian border, Glare of the Sun craft a wide-spanning progressive doom and post-metal sound that moves through sludge, shoegaze, ambient, and folk textures across long, dynamic compositions. Signed to Lifeforce Records, their discography includes Soil (2017), Theia (2019), and TAL (2024), each album evolving the scope and density of their sound.
Glaurung is a black/doom metal band from Småland, Sweden, active since 2014 and named after the father of dragons in Tolkien's legendarium. The project merges black metal's darkness with doom's crushing weight.
Gloombound is a funeral doom metal project from Oslo, formed in 2023. They deliver glacial funeral doom from the Norwegian capital.
Gloomlurker is a melodic death/doom metal band from Grimsby in northeast England, formed in 2020. They deliver the melancholic intersection of melodic death metal and doom from the Humber coast fishing town.
Gloomreaper is a doom/death metal band from Liverpool, formed in 2025. They bring crushing doom/death metal to the Merseyside city.
Gloomy Sunday is a sludge/doom metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, active since 2007 and delivering nearly two decades of crushing heaviness from the Swedish metal capital. Their longevity makes them one of Gothenburg's more enduring doom acts.
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