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Lake County, Illinois quartet Garden of Darkness blends gothic gloom, power metal ambition, and progressive architecture into a dramatic and ornate style that emerged in 2020. Equal parts darkness and grandeur, they occupy an unusually wide corner of heavy music.
Garden of Souls is a progressive metal band from Rotterdam, formed in 2024. They bring compositional ambition to the Netherlands' second city.
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.
Garden Wall is a progressive metal band from Cervignano del Friuli in the Udine province, active since 2015. They deliver compositionally ambitious progressive metal from the Friuli Venezia Giulia region.
Gardens of Stone is a progressive groove/sludge metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2023, combining complex progressive structures with groove and sludge metal's weight. The band brings a multi-layered, heavy approach to Barcelona's diverse metal scene.
Gargantua is a death metal and progressive metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2016, combining technical prowess with extreme metal aggression. Named after Rabelais' literary giant, their sound reflects an ambitious French approach to progressive death metal.
Santa Cruz, California's Gargantula has been spinning its web since 2015, weaving together progressive, stoner, doom, and death metal into something strange and sprawling. Their compositions wander freely across tempos and moods, held together by a psychedelic, spidery sensibility.
Gargantura is a groove metal and progressive metal band from Cergy near Paris, France, formed in 2014, blending rhythmic, headbanging grooves with progressive complexity and dynamic arrangements. Their sound merges the punch of groove metal with the ambition and intricacy of progressive composition.
Garlic is a gothic/progressive metal band from Zrenjanin, Serbia, formed in 2020. Their unusual name contrasts with their atmospheric, genre-blending approach to heavy music.
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