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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.
Utah's Goat Surgeon have been practicing a methodical strain of death metal since 2017, dissecting their subject matter with surgical precision and zero mercy. Their craft rewards listeners who can stomach the procedure.
Goat the Head is a death metal band from Trondheim, active since 2011. They deliver aggressive death metal from Norway's third city.
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.
Goat Vomit Noise is a black/death metal band from Ancona on the Adriatic coast of the Marche, formed in 2020. They deliver raw, chaotic extreme metal from the Marche regional capital.
Goat Witch is a death/doom metal band from Warwickshire, formed in 2018. They merge death metal aggression with doom's crushing weight from the English Midlands.
Goatagon is a black metal and melodic black metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2024, with releases The Gates of Manala and When All the Gods Have Fallen drawing on Finnish mythology. Their work channels both the ferocity of black metal and the melodic sensibility of the Finnish school.
Goatblood is a black/death metal act from Kleve, Germany, formed in 2024, channeling bestial extreme metal from the Lower Rhine region near the Dutch border. The project delivers savage, war-metal-adjacent black/death metal.
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