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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Ghathanothoa is a sludge/doom metal band from Turin, formed in 2016. Named after the Lovecraftian deity whose visage petrifies all who behold it, they deliver crushing sludge doom from the Piedmontese capital.
Ghold is a doom/sludge/avant-garde metal and noise rock band from London, active since 2012. They push the boundaries of doom and sludge metal into avant-garde and noise rock territory from the British capital.
Charleston's Ghore (SC) operates in the slow, suffocating territory where sludge metal and doom overlap — crushing guitar tones, glacial tempos, and a Southern heaviness that feels like humidity turned into sound. They've been dragging listeners down since 2016.
Boise, Idaho's Ghorot merges blackened aggression with doom's cavernous, slow-moving devastation, producing music that feels like a frozen landscape slowly giving way underfoot. Active since 2019, they bring a remote, desolate quality to everything they touch.
Ghost is an experimental project from Bourg-en-Bresse, France, formed in 2013, blending black metal, doom, and experimental elements into an unorthodox sonic palette. Their approach defies easy categorization, drawing from multiple extreme genres.
Ghost Brigade is a post-metal and melodic death-doom band from Jyväskylä, Finland, active from 2005 to 2020, creating heavy, mournful music that blends the distinctly Finnish sound of sorrow with the vast drone of post-metal. Their discography includes Isolation Songs, Until Fear No Longer Defines Us, and IV: One with the Storm, featuring plaintive vocals exploring themes of loss.
Out of Laurens, South Carolina, Ghost Creek traffic in the slowest and most suffocating end of funeral doom — dirges that move like sediment through still water, heavy with grief and geological patience. Founded in 2019, their music invites total surrender to the weight.
Ghost Empire is a sludge/doom metal band from the Prato/Florence area of Tuscany, formed in 2014. They deliver crushing sludge and doom from the Tuscan heartland.
Los Angeles's Ghost Hour blend death metal aggression with the suffocating weight of doom, crafting music that feels like dusk settling permanently over the city. Active since 2015, their death/doom churns with a cinematic, West Coast density.
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