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Gladenfold is a melodic death metal and power metal band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2023, with a prolific output including Dark Age Medieval Warfare, Misanthropic Reign Forest, and World Is a Depressed Place across numerous demos and full-lengths. Their catalog blends aggressive melodic death metal with dark atmospheric and medieval-themed imagery, released through their own Screech Merchant Records.
Glondemir is a melodic death metal band from Balingen, Germany, formed in 2019, delivering Scandinavian-influenced melodeath from the Swabian Jura. The band combines melodic guitar harmonies with death metal aggression.
Gloomlurker is a melodic death/doom metal band from Grimsby in northeast England, formed in 2020. They deliver the melancholic intersection of melodic death metal and doom from the Humber coast fishing town.
Kyiv melodic death metal project formed in 2020, weaving melodic guitar work through death metal's aggressive framework from Ukraine's capital. Their approach carries the emotional resonance of the Scandinavian melodic death metal tradition.
Goatpuncher is a melodic death metal band from Lincoln, formed in 2017. Their irreverently goat-themed name contrasts with the melodic precision of their death metal from the Lincolnshire cathedral city.
Goats Rising is a melodic death/thrash/groove metal band from Brunswick (Braunschweig), Germany, active since 2009, self-describing their genre as "Ambient Goat Metal" blending various heavy subgenres. Their catalog includes Rise of the Monkeygoat (2012), Necrogoaticon (2015) on Kernkraftritter Records, and Asche (2019).
God Shaped Devil is a groove/melodic death metal band from Manchester, formed in 2016. They blend the rhythmic punch of groove metal with melodic death metal's twin-guitar approach from the Mancunian underground.
God Syndrome is a melodic death metal band from Samara, Russia, active since 2013 and delivering Scandinavian-influenced melodeath from the Volga region. Over a decade of activity reflects a dedicated approach to the genre.
God.Fear.None is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from Athens, active since 2005. Two decades of melodic death metal from the Greek capital make them one of the most enduring acts in the Hellenic extreme underground.
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