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Littleton, Colorado's Ghosts of Glaciers have been mapping the intersection of blackened metal and post-metal's expansive architecture since 2010 — music that moves like slow ice, grinding and reshaping everything beneath it with patient, immense force.
Sacramento's Giant Squid have spent over two decades crafting some of the most literary and emotionally complex music at the intersection of doom, post-metal, and progressive rock. Their ocean-deep arrangements unfold like dark novels in sound.
Boston's Glacier moves at the pace of ice — slow, crushing, and inevitable — blending doom metal's oppressive weight with post-metal's sprawling atmospheric reach. Their sound evokes vast, frozen desolation as much as it does raw sonic punishment.
Formed in 2013 in Traunstein on the Austrian-Bavarian border, Glare of the Sun craft a wide-spanning progressive doom and post-metal sound that moves through sludge, shoegaze, ambient, and folk textures across long, dynamic compositions. Signed to Lifeforce Records, their discography includes Soil (2017), Theia (2019), and TAL (2024), each album evolving the scope and density of their sound.
Glarus is a sludge/post-metal band from Manchester, formed in 2017. They blend crushing sludge with expansive post-metal dynamics from one of England's most musically fertile cities.
Genre-defying Austin trio blending post-metal, black metal, sludge, and shoegaze. Signed to Pelagic Records.
Gloson is an atmospheric sludge/post-metal band from Halmstad, Sweden, formed in 2012 and creating dark music offset with the smallest glimmer of hope, drawing from personal introspection and internal wastelands. Their extensive catalog includes Grimen, Yearwalker, and The Rift.
Gmoh is a sludge/death/post-metal band from Wroclaw, formed in 2017. They blend sludge weight with death metal aggression and post-metal atmospherics from the Lower Silesian capital.
Golghari is a doom/post-metal band from Hemer, Germany, formed in 2023, blending doom metal's crushing heaviness with post-metal's atmospheric exploration. The band brings expansive, emotionally charged heavy music to the Sauerland region.
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