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Goat Riders in the Sky is a doom and stoner metal band from Chambéry in the French Alps, formed in 2012, delivering fuzz-laden, heavy riffing with a nod to the wide-open atmosphere implied by their name. Their sound channels slow, crushing grooves and psychedelic haze.
Goat River is a doom and stoner metal band from Toulouse, France, active since 2009, delivering heavy, low-tuned riffs from the heart of southwestern France. Their catalog includes self-titled releases and a split with Dispenser.
Goat Sabbath is a death/black metal act from Halle an der Saale, Germany, formed in 2020, blending death metal's brutality with black metal's atmospheric darkness. The band takes their name from the legendary witches' sabbath, reflecting occult themes.
Goat Serpent is a death metal band from Lieksa in eastern Finland, formed in 2025, bringing aggressive extreme metal from one of the country's more remote and forested regions. Their sound channels the raw, primal energy that characterizes Finland's deep underground death metal scene.
Goat Sperm is a raw black metal project from Saarbrucken, Germany, formed in 2018, delivering uncompromising, lo-fi black metal with maximum filth and aggression. The project operates at the most primitive end of the German raw black metal underground.
Goat the Head is a death metal band from Trondheim, active since 2011. They deliver aggressive death metal from Norway's third city.
Goat Torment is a blackened metal duo from Ghent active since 2008, whose members Kwel and Torturer describe their music as "a weapon of mass destruction." Signed to Season of Mist, they have released Dominande Tenebrae (2013), Sermons to Death (2015), and Forked Tongues (2021), the latter praised as a blast furnace of primal satanic fury.
Goat Tunnel is a one-man doom metal project from Espoo, Finland, formed in 2016, with all instruments performed by Vaerm across releases including The Glass Void and Fanatic. The project cultivates a moody, oppressive atmosphere through solitary, monolithic doom compositions.
Goat Vomit is a two-member extreme metal project from Saint-Nicolas, Belgium, fusing black metal with enough death metal influence to give the sound added heft and brutality. Their 2017 debut Tormenting the Holy was recorded and mixed in just four days, yielding six tracks of raw, anti-religious aggression in twenty-one minutes.
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