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Death Doom Punks (2026)
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Curse of the Crystal Coconut (2020)
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Gorleben is a doom/death metal and hardcore band from Dresden, Germany, formed in 2021, named after the controversial German nuclear waste storage site. The band channels political weight and crushing heaviness from the Saxon capital.
Gormless is a sludge/doom metal band from the United Kingdom, formed in 2017. Their self-deprecating British name contrasts with the serious heaviness of their sludge/doom approach.
Gorse Cairn is a black/doom metal project from West Yorkshire, formed in 2018. Named after the thorny shrub-covered stone burial mounds of the British landscape, they channel the bleak moors of northern England into atmospheric extreme metal.
Gortaigh is a psychedelic sludge/doom metal band from the Krasnodar Krai in southern Russia, formed in 2026 and blending mind-bending psychedelia with crushing sludge and doom. The project delivers hazy, oppressive heaviness.
Atmospheric black/doom/gothic metal project from Chernivtsi formed in 2023, merging multiple dark metal styles into a richly textured sonic tapestry. Their multi-faceted approach weaves atmosphere, melancholy, and aggression from the foothills of the Carpathians.
Gothic Castle is a band from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, that evolved from doom/death metal origins in 2016 into gothic metal territory. The project bridges extreme metal heaviness with gothic atmospherics from the Volga.
Gothic Sky is a band from Michurinsk, Russia, that evolved from doom/death metal origins in 2020 into a gothic/black metal direction. The project traces an arc across multiple dark metal genres.
Gothic Stone is an epic doom/progressive metal band from Palermo, Sicily, formed in 2018. They blend doom weight with progressive complexity from the Sicilian capital.
Gour is a black/doom metal project from Clermont-Ferrand in central France, active since 2017 and merging the bleakness of black metal with the crushing weight of doom. The project inhabits the shadowy crossroads where these two genres meet in suffocating atmosphere.
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