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Goat the Head is a death metal band from Trondheim, active since 2011. They deliver aggressive death metal from Norway's third city.
Massachusetts' Goat Thrower have been fusing thrash's kinetic urgency with black metal's frost-bitten atmosphere since 2008, producing a sound that's hard, fast, and genuinely hostile. One of the longer-running acts in this corner of the underground.
Goat Torment is a blackened metal duo from Ghent active since 2008, whose members Kwel and Torturer describe their music as "a weapon of mass destruction." Signed to Season of Mist, they have released Dominande Tenebrae (2013), Sermons to Death (2015), and Forked Tongues (2021), the latter praised as a blast furnace of primal satanic fury.
Goat Tunnel is a one-man doom metal project from Espoo, Finland, formed in 2016, with all instruments performed by Vaerm across releases including The Glass Void and Fanatic. The project cultivates a moody, oppressive atmosphere through solitary, monolithic doom compositions.
Goat Vomit is a two-member extreme metal project from Saint-Nicolas, Belgium, fusing black metal with enough death metal influence to give the sound added heft and brutality. Their 2017 debut Tormenting the Holy was recorded and mixed in just four days, yielding six tracks of raw, anti-religious aggression in twenty-one minutes.
Goat Vomit Noise is a black/death metal band from Ancona on the Adriatic coast of the Marche, formed in 2020. They deliver raw, chaotic extreme metal from the Marche regional capital.
Goat Witch is a death/doom metal band from Warwickshire, formed in 2018. They merge death metal aggression with doom's crushing weight from the English Midlands.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania's Goat Wizard conjure thick, fuzz-drenched doom that moves at glacial pace and hits like a stone wall. Since 2014, they've embraced the heaviest traditions of stoner doom with occult flair and unhurried conviction.
Goat Worship is a black metal act from Vejle, Denmark, formed in 2014, delivering ritualistic, goat-centric black metal from the east Jutland city. The band channels bestial worship through raw Scandinavian black metal.
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