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Godburner is a funeral doom metal project from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2025, dealing in the slowest, heaviest, and most oppressive end of the doom spectrum. The project is a new addition to Berlin's extreme doom underground.
Portland, Oregon's Grave Monolith traffic in funeral doom metal of suffocating patience — slow processions of grief and inevitability stretched to their absolute limits. Formed in 2023, they build monuments out of silence and drone as much as sound.
Gravkväde is a black/funeral doom metal band from Uddevalla, Sweden, active since 2017 and merging the coldest currents of black metal with the crushing slowness of funeral doom. The project inhabits the most oppressive territory in extreme metal.
Grey November is a funeral doom metal and neoclassical darkwave project from Paris, formed in 2021. They merge the glacial heaviness of funeral doom with the elegant atmospherics of neoclassical darkwave from the French capital.
Grievous Obscuration is a funeral doom metal project from Pozega in eastern Croatia, formed in 2020. They channel the glacial heaviness of funeral doom from the Slavonian heartland.
Gruulvoqh is an atmospheric funeral doom project from Erembodegem, Belgium, launched in 2018 and framed around a science-fiction narrative of a consciousness exploring reality from a spaceship. Their releases include Dreams of the Savant and The Eternal Traveller, blending crushing funeral doom with cosmic conceptual themes.
Gust in Grief is a funeral doom/death metal band from Zhukovsky near Moscow, Russia, active since 2012 and delivering glacially slow, suffocating heaviness. Over a decade of activity reflects a commitment to the most oppressive tempos in extreme metal.
New Jersey's Guthook inhabit the most desolate end of funeral doom, stretching songs into extended meditations on grief and decay while weaving in death metal's tonal brutality. Active since 2014, they operate in real slow-motion darkness — the kind that takes hours to lift.
Gudvangir is a funeral doom metal project from Norway, formed in 2024. Named after the Icelandic word for sacred fields, they deliver glacial funeral doom from the Scandinavian underground.
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