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Gandur is a black metal project from Lisbon, Portugal, formed in 2023 and forging dark extremity from the Portuguese capital. The project channels the raw aggression of black metal through an Iberian lens.
New Jersey's Gangr emerged in 2023 with a stark black metal approach that favors atmosphere and malevolence over accessibility. Still early in their existence, they carry the project-style intensity common to the current US black metal underground.
Gangrena is a black/speed metal band from Vilnius, Lithuania, formed in 2016. They fuse black metal with speed metal velocity from the Baltic capital.
Named for the King of Evil himself, Escondido, California's Gannondorf have been playing raw, uncompromising black metal since 2010 with the single-minded ferocity their namesake would demand. Over a decade into their existence, they remain a committed presence in the Southern California underground.
Ganondorf is a black metal project from Nulvi in the Sassari province of Sardinia, formed in 2019. Named after the villain of the Legend of Zelda, they channel black metal from one of Sardinia's most remote northern villages.
Gaoth is a one-person atmospheric and post-black metal project from Wexford, Ireland, created entirely by sole member F.S. since 2016. The project's two albums, Dying Season's Glory (2016) and The Obsidian Dialogue (2021), span over seventy minutes of cosmic, transcendent black metal blending folk, neofolk, and progressive elements.
Active since 2008 in Urfahr-Umgebung, Upper Austria, Garden of Grief craft atmospheric black metal grounded in melancholy and desolation, with an extensive catalog stretching from early splits and demos through full-lengths such as Philosophies of Bleak Landscapes and Of Shattered Dreams and Nostalgic Melancholy. Their album titles map a consistent lyrical world of bleak landscapes, sorrow, and fading light.
Garden of Nurgle is a French raw black metal project formed in 2021, tagged with the motto 'Noise, Plague, Chaos,' delivering instrumental black metal through extended compositions. Their debut VII features two sprawling tracks of raw, atmospheric black metal totaling nearly nineteen minutes.
Garden of Sadness is a depressive black metal project from Siemianowice Slaskie in Upper Silesia, active since 2002. Over two decades of anguished black metal from the industrial Silesian conurbation.
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