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Gardenian is a melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, active since 2011 and contributing to the city's legendary melodeath lineage. The project channels the twin-guitar harmonies and aggressive energy that defines the Gothenburg sound.
Gardeniathan is a gothic/doom/death metal band from Halmstad, Sweden, formed in 2022 and weaving dark romanticism into crushing doom and death metal from Sweden's west coast. The project merges gothic atmosphere with extreme metal weight.
Louisville, Kentucky's Gardens of Grey is a freshly formed project threading together doom, death, and post-metal into something mournful and expansive. Active since 2024, they reflect Louisville's long tradition of heavy, emotionally dense underground music.
Gardens of Grief is a melodic death metal band from Germany, formed in 2009, channeling the Gothenburg tradition of melodic aggression with harmonic guitar leads and powerful growls. The band takes its name from the classic At the Gates EP, signaling their allegiance to Swedish melodeath.
Gardens of Hell is a death metal band from Redditch in the West Midlands, formed in 2021. They channel death metal aggression from the Worcestershire town in the English Midlands.
Gargan is a blackened death metal band from Corato in the Bari province of Puglia, formed in 2016. They deliver aggressive blackened death metal from the olive-growing heartland of southern Italy.
Gargantua is a death metal and progressive metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2016, combining technical prowess with extreme metal aggression. Named after Rabelais' literary giant, their sound reflects an ambitious French approach to progressive death metal.
Springfield, Illinois outfit Gargantuan merges the atmosphere of black metal with the pummeling density of death metal into a sound that's as expansive as its name implies. Since 2019 they've built a reputation in the Illinois underground for uncompromising extremity.
Santa Cruz, California's Gargantula has been spinning its web since 2015, weaving together progressive, stoner, doom, and death metal into something strange and sprawling. Their compositions wander freely across tempos and moods, held together by a psychedelic, spidery sensibility.
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