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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Gaai is a psychedelic stoner metal/rock band from Amsterdam, formed in 2020. They deliver hazy, psychedelic stoner metal from the Dutch capital.
Frederick, Maryland's Galactic Cross have been burning slow and heavy since 2020, merging the fuzzed-out psychedelia of stoner metal with sludge's confrontational, bottom-heavy grind.
Pittsburgh's Galactic Jihad launched in 2024 with a stoner metal approach that favors cosmic riff worship and heavy-lidded grooves — the kind of music that sounds better at maximum volume.
The name alone sets expectations: Owensboro, Kentucky's Galactic Tyrannosaur bring a prehistoric, lumbering weight to stoner and doom metal, crushing everything in their path since 2019.
Gallileous is a stoner/doom metal band from Wodzislaw Slaski in Silesia, active since 2008. They have evolved from funeral doom through stoner/doom to psychedelic stoner rock, reflecting a constantly shifting sonic vision from the southern Polish coalfields.
Gallons of Mud is a stoner/sludge/doom metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2011, driven by a self-described passion for Sabbath riffs, slow movements, and infectious grooves. Their 2018 full-length God Bless & Fuck You was recorded and mixed by bassist Steve Albino, delivering seven tracks of doomy, groove-laden stoner metal.
Gamdøden is a stoner/doom/sludge metal band from Helsingborg, Sweden, formed in 2022 and dealing in heavy, low-end punishment from the Øresund coast. The project merges three crushing genres into a single monolithic assault.
From the small town of Gilman, Illinois, Gamma Goat conjure the slow-burning heat of stoner metal with a rural authenticity that big-city acts rarely manage. Founded in 2017, they're proof that the Midwest can grow something heavy and hazy just as well as any desert.
Eugene, Oregon's Gamma Knife wield an unlikely but effective fusion of stoner metal's slow churn and death metal's gutting aggression. Active since 2011, they're one of the longer-running acts in the Pacific Northwest's underground and have honed that collision into something genuinely their own.
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