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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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Salt Lake City's Gallowbraid weave melodic black metal with folk sensibilities, conjuring vast, lonesome landscapes through sweeping guitar work and raw intensity. Active since 2010, they stand among the more distinctive voices in the American atmospheric black metal underground.
Seattle's Gallows Hymn blend progressive and folk metal into something intricate and emotionally expansive, threading acoustic textures through complex arrangements with patience and craft. Since 2019, they've occupied a thoughtful corner of the Pacific Northwest metal scene.
Garum is a folk metal band from Pescara on the Adriatic coast of Abruzzo, formed in 2020. Named after the fermented fish sauce of ancient Rome, they channel Italian antiquity through folk metal.
Gastljus is a folk/black/death metal band from Skåne, Sweden, active since 2011 and weaving Scandinavian folk traditions into extreme metal from southern Sweden. The project merges ancient folk with aggressive black and death metal.
Gates of Eden is a progressive/folk metal band from Menfi in the Agrigento province of Sicily, formed in 2023. They blend progressive complexity with folk elements from the island's southern coast.
Gavranar is a Bosnian folk metal project created in 2011 by Armin Odobašić from Hadžići, blending thrash metal with Balkan folk instruments and traditions drawn from sevdalinka, kolo, medieval, Celtic, and renaissance music sources, including recorder, accordion, and bagpipes. Their 2013 five-track demo EP Where the Winds Are Clawed explores the relationship between humanity, nature, and the eternal conflict between good and evil.
Geasa is a Celtic folk/black metal project from Dublin, Ireland, formed in 2024 and weaving Irish folk traditions and Celtic mythology into atmospheric black metal. The project's name derives from the sacred bonds and taboos of Irish mythology.
A New York project fusing raw black metal with folk sensibilities, Gelassenheit — a German word denoting yielding or serenity — subverts its own name with abrasive, earthy compositions since 2020. The folk element adds texture without softening the edge.
Geomyth is an epic power and folk metal project from Cork, Ireland, formed in 2024 and blending the soaring melodies of power metal with folk instrumentation and mythological themes. The project explores Irish and wider mythological narratives through epic metal.
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