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Glacial Dirge is a Swedish funeral doom metal project formed in 2023 and dealing in the slowest, most suffocating tempos in extreme metal. The project channels glacial despair through oppressive compositions.
Boston's Glacier moves at the pace of ice — slow, crushing, and inevitable — blending doom metal's oppressive weight with post-metal's sprawling atmospheric reach. Their sound evokes vast, frozen desolation as much as it does raw sonic punishment.
Gladius Dei is a doom/heavy metal project from Muhldorf am Inn in rural South Germany, formed in 2021, self-described as doom metal from a rural area. Their releases The King Is Dead EP and Long Gone Ghosts channel classic doom and heavy metal with a stripped-down, countryside aesthetic.
A newcomer from Columbus, Ohio, Glamoury arrived in 2025 bringing doom metal with an air of mystery bound up in its name — glamoury being an old word for enchantment or illusion. What they deliver is anything but an illusion: heavy, slow, and consuming.
Formed in 2013 in Traunstein on the Austrian-Bavarian border, Glare of the Sun craft a wide-spanning progressive doom and post-metal sound that moves through sludge, shoegaze, ambient, and folk textures across long, dynamic compositions. Signed to Lifeforce Records, their discography includes Soil (2017), Theia (2019), and TAL (2024), each album evolving the scope and density of their sound.
Portland's Glasghote drags sludge through the mud of doom, coiling feedback and suffocating low-end into something that sounds like the Pacific Northwest itself — wet, gray, and pressing down. Since 2017 they've been one of the city's most punishing underground outfits.
Glaurung is a black/doom metal band from Småland, Sweden, active since 2014 and named after the father of dragons in Tolkien's legendarium. The project merges black metal's darkness with doom's crushing weight.
Drawing its name from the mythological binding that held the wolf Fenrir, California's Gleipner channels Norse themes into black metal that aims to restrain and overwhelm in equal measure. Founded in 2022, they bring a focused, mythologically charged darkness.
Santa Cruz's Gloam has been working the threshold between black and doom metal since 2012, building a sound as oppressive as coastal fog and twice as cold. They move slowly, deliberately, and with the kind of weight that stays with you.
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