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De Doorn (2022)
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Garden of Gods is a melodic death/doom metal band from Athens, formed in 2016. They blend melodic death metal sensibility with doom's crushing weight from the Greek capital.
Garden of Silence is a death-doom metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2025, merging death metal's crushing intensity with doom metal's deliberate heaviness. Their sound taps into the Parisian underground tradition of atmospheric extreme metal.
Garden of Worm is a doom and progressive metal band from Kangasala, Finland, releasing through Svart Records with their 2015 album Idle Stones featuring four expansive compositions including the nearly twenty-minute epic The Sleeper. Their sound merges heavy doom riffs with psychedelic atmospheres, creating meditative journeys described by listeners as shadowy and transcendent.
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.
Garganjua is a doom/post-metal band from Leicester, formed in 2014. They craft expansive, dynamically charged post-metal and doom from the East Midlands city.
Gargantuan Blade is a traditional doom metal band from Lappeenranta, Finland, formed in 2022 by Samuel Wormius, Nikolem Kolemaios, William Warden, and Rex Torr, delivering old-school, straight-up doom with fantasy-themed imagery. Their self-titled debut features four tracks of massive, deliberate riffing evoking dungeon-crawling adventure, including the nearly thirteen-minute Spectral Pillagers.
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.
Gargowitch is a black metal and doom band from Creuzier-le-Vieux in the Auvergne region of France, blending occult atmospheres with heavy, doom-laden riffing across releases including Demonic Blues, Cannibal Troten, and Avidee. Their sound merges black metal's darkness with doom metal's crushing weight.
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