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Gandalf the Green is a stoner/doom metal band from Leeds, formed in 2016. Their Tolkien-referencing name — a decidedly more herbally inclined version of the wizard — perfectly captures the stoner doom spirit they channel from West Yorkshire.
Los Angeles stoner metal outfit Ganjashaman follow the smoke-filled, riff-heavy path that the genre demands, trading in fuzz-soaked grooves and hazy psychedelic weight since 2018. They fit naturally into Southern California's long tradition of heavy, sun-baked psychedelia.
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.
San Diego's Garth Algar dishes out stoner-laced sludge metal with the easygoing swagger and slow-rolling heaviness that the Southern California coast seems to generate naturally. Active since 2012, the band's party-ready name belies how genuinely crushing the music gets.
Rising from the high plains of Amarillo, Texas, Garthok has been dealing in bone-dry stoner and doom metal since 2012 — a fitting sound for the flat, punishing landscape of the Texas panhandle. Slow, hazy, and heavy.
Brutal Death Metal / Hardcore / Grindcore from Fort Worth.
Gas Giant is a stoner/doom metal band from Amsterdam, active since 2000. Over two-and-a-half decades of massive stoner doom from the Dutch capital make them one of the country's most enduring heavy acts.
Gate 9 is a doom/heavy/stoner metal band from Horten on the Oslofjord, active since 2002. Over two decades of doom and stoner metal from the Vestfold coast make them one of Norway's most enduring acts in the genre.
Named for the mythological passage of true dreams, New York's Gate of Horn weave together sludge, stoner, and doom into a hazy, lumbering mass that feels ancient and psychedelic at once. Active since 2014, they remain one of the more atmospheric acts in the tri-state heavy underground.
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