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Goatplasma is a black/death metal project from Poland, formed in 2025. They deliver raw extreme metal from the Polish underground.
Goatpreacher is a black/death metal band from Astrakhan, Russia, active since 2015 and merging black metal's atmospheric darkness with death metal's crushing brutality from the Caspian coast. The project delivers fierce extremity from southern Russia.
Goatpuncher is a melodic death metal band from Lincoln, formed in 2017. Their irreverently goat-themed name contrasts with the melodic precision of their death metal from the Lincolnshire cathedral city.
Goatreich is a Swedish black/death metal project active since 2020, merging black metal's corrosive atmosphere with death metal's crushing weight. The project delivers fierce extremity.
Goats Rising is a melodic death/thrash/groove metal band from Brunswick (Braunschweig), Germany, active since 2009, self-describing their genre as "Ambient Goat Metal" blending various heavy subgenres. Their catalog includes Rise of the Monkeygoat (2012), Necrogoaticon (2015) on Kernkraftritter Records, and Asche (2019).
Out of Russellville, Alabama, Goatscorge operate at the rawest edges of black/death metal, where production quality is an afterthought and atmosphere is everything. Since 2019, they've served up unfiltered sonic ugliness from deep in the American South.
Goatsmegma is a black/death metal act from Tallinn, Estonia, formed in 2019, delivering extreme metal from the Baltic capital. The band channels bestial black/death metal with provocative aesthetics.
Goatstare is a black/death metal act from Berlin, Germany, active since 1999, making them one of the longer-running extreme metal acts in the capital. The project has been channeling bestial black/death metal for over a quarter century.
Goatthornsskullbonechrusher is a death metal project from Ottweiler in Saarland, Germany, formed in 2021, whose deliberately excessive name signals a tongue-in-cheek approach to extreme metal. The project channels death metal brutality from the small-town Saarland underground.
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