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Los Angeles psychedelic sludge merchants Garbeast layer sun-scorched fuzz over cavernous doom tempos, conjuring something hallucinatory and heavy in equal measure. Since forming in 2021 they've leaned hard into the ritualistic, slow-burning end of the LA underground.
Garden of Delight is a death/doom metal band from Olkusz in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, formed in 2016. They deliver crushing death/doom from the historic silver-mining town.
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.
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