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De Doorn (2022)
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Gemini One is a sludge/doom metal act from Saarbrucken, Germany, formed in 2012, with releases spanning from their 2012 EP through Per Aspera (2019) to the 2024 album 16:01:01:69. The project has maintained a steady output of heavy, atmospheric doom over twelve years.
Odesa doom metal act launched in 2024 with a self-aware name that embraces the genre's tropes with tongue-in-cheek humor. Their slow-burning heaviness channels doom metal's crushing weight from Ukraine's Black Sea port city.
San Francisco's Genghis Bong play psychedelic doom metal thick with haze and slow-motion riffing, formed in 2023 out of the Bay Area's fertile heavy underground. The name tells you everything you need to know about their priorities.
Genius of Sugarcane is a stoner/doom metal band from Nova Venécia, Espírito Santo, Brazil, built around the core of vocalist and guitarist Estevão Neri Massucatti, guitarist Luis Alfredo Santos, bassist Bruno Rodrigues, and drummer Rodrigo Gaspar Rodrigues. The band released their debut EP "Preludes from New Times" in November 2019, a three-track effort recorded at Audio Space Studio that draws on H.P. Lovecraft, spirituality, and nuclear themes across its doom-laden, psychedelic sound.
Genuflection is a death/doom metal band from Galway, Ireland, active since 2020 and channeling crushing heaviness from the west coast of Ireland. The project merges the brutality of death metal with doom's suffocating weight.
Geodaehan is a funeral doom metal project from Norway, formed in 2018. They deliver the glacial heaviness of funeral doom from the Norwegian underground.
Rhode Island's Geomancer works within the melodic progressive metal tradition, favoring patient song structures, lush arrangements, and technically accomplished playing that never loses sight of the tune. Active since 2018, they bring a thoughtful craft to a genre often dominated by flash.
Ggu:ll is a drone/doom metal project from Tilburg, active since 2010. They deliver massive, slow-motion drone doom from the North Brabant city.
Ghast is a black/doom metal band from Swansea, Wales, formed in 2021. They blend the cold hostility of black metal with doom's crushing weight from the South Welsh industrial coast.
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