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Gaerea is a masked Portuguese black metal band from Porto, evolving from raw black metal roots into atmospheric post-black metal territory, signed to Season of Mist. Their fourth album Coma (2024) challenges the archetype of black metal by coloring outside the genre's lines with melancholy texture, deep emotion, and devastating heaviness.
GAFR is a post-black metal/ambient project from Manchester, formed in 2019. They blend atmospheric post-black metal with ambient textures from one of England's most culturally vibrant cities.
Black metal project from Yevpatoriya in Crimea, active since 2012 and channeling extreme darkness from the Black Sea coast. Their atmospheric aggression draws from the deep well of Eastern European black metal tradition.
Gaiseric is a solo atmospheric and post-black metal project from Aix-en-Provence, France, formed in 2021, describing the work as 'a melancholic journey' with influences from Lascar, Unreqvited, and Eldamar. Releases include the album Fog in the Distance and the single A Path Through the Autumn Leaves.
Gaistaz is a blackened gothic/doom metal band from Gelderland, formed in 2019. They blend blackened atmosphere with gothic doom from the eastern Dutch province.
Gaktungar is a black metal band from Vladivostok in the Russian Far East, active since 2012 and forging extreme metal at the edge of the Pacific. The project channels the isolation and harshness of Russia's easternmost major city.
Galactic Cannibalism is a one-man cosmic black metal project from Seinäjoki, Finland, created by Henrik Pouttu, who handles all composition, performance, and artwork. The 2023 debut Planet Eater is a sci-fi concept album exploring themes of time, isolation, and cosmic horror across ten tracks of atmospheric and progressive black metal.
Galaktik Cancer Squad is a one-man progressive black metal project from Hamburg, Germany, founded by Arwohn in 2011, blending aggressive post-black metal with cacophonous vocals and moments of soaring post-rock melancholy. The project released four albums in rapid succession from 2012 to 2013, with Ghost Light marking the first physical release through Hypnotic Dirge Records.
Galanthus is a black metal project from Calais in northern France, formed in 2017, channeling dark, atmospheric intensity from the windswept coast of the Pas-de-Calais. Their sound draws on the bleak, cold aesthetics of European black metal.
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