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Originally formed in 2002 with ties to Phoenix, Arizona, Graves at Sea relocated to Portland, Oregon and built a slow-burning reputation across splits and EPs released through Southern Lord and 20 Buck Spin before a 2008 breakup and subsequent 2012 reunion. Their long-awaited debut full-length The Curse That Is finally arrived in 2016 on Relapse Records, a crushing hour-plus of sludge and doom metal nearly fifteen years in the making. The band drew on the Oregon and Oakland heavy underground, drawing comparisons to Eyehategod and Electric Wizard while maintaining a distinctly bleak Pacific Northwest character.
San Diego's Graveseer, formed as recently as 2025, traffic in the slow-creeping territory of sludge-doom, building visions out of distortion and dread. Their music is prophetic in its patience — each riff arriving like an omen rather than a blow.
Colossal Death / Doom Metal out of Texas.
Graveyard Dirt is a doom/death metal band from Stranorlar in County Donegal, Ireland, originally formed in 1994 and reformed after a hiatus to release their debut For Grace or Damnation (2010) on Ashen Productions. Their long history includes a 1995 demo and a deal with Ars Metalli before their initial disbanding.
Graveyard of Souls is a death-doom duo from Burgos, Spain, featuring Angel Chicote on music and Raúl Weaver on vocals, with an extensive discography including Infinitum Nihil, Shadows of Life, and Pequeños Fragmentos de Tiempo Congelado. Their contemplative, Spanish-titled records explore themes of existence, time, and desolation across a richly atmospheric body of work.
Gravity Well is a stoner/doom metal band from Belfast, formed in 2019. They deliver massive, riff-heavy stoner doom from the Northern Irish capital.
Gravkväde is a black/funeral doom metal band from Uddevalla, Sweden, active since 2017 and merging the coldest currents of black metal with the crushing slowness of funeral doom. The project inhabits the most oppressive territory in extreme metal.
Out of Mandeville, Louisiana, Grayskull fuse the hypnotic crawl of doom with stoner metal's fuzz-drenched warmth, conjuring something heavy and slow enough to sink into the swamp. Since 2021 they've been stacking riffs that belong in the dark.
Great is a death/doom metal act from Bojkovice, Czech Republic, formed in 2015, combining the crushing weight of doom with death metal's aggression. The project operates in the slower, heavier reaches of Czech extreme metal.
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