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Featured Album
People Watching (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
11/14 @ The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Among the Shadows (2024)
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Doom and stoner metal act from the Kadikoy district of Istanbul, formed in 2019 and delivering fuzz-drenched heaviness from the city's Asian side. Their slow-burning riffs and hazy atmospherics channel the genre's tradition of hypnotic weight.
Godburner is a funeral doom metal project from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2025, dealing in the slowest, heaviest, and most oppressive end of the doom spectrum. The project is a new addition to Berlin's extreme doom underground.
Godchilla is a psychedelic sludge metal band from Reykjavík, Iceland, active since 2013 and combining crushing sludge riffs with psychedelic exploration in the tradition of Iceland's adventurous heavy music scene. The project delivers mind-bending heaviness from the land of fire and ice.
Godcomplex is a death/black/thrash metal band from Dusseldorf, Germany, formed in 2015, delivering a three-pronged attack of extreme metal subgenres from the Rhine-Ruhr area. The band combines the speed of thrash, the darkness of black metal, and the brutality of death metal.
Goddefied is a death metal band from Karlskoga, Sweden, active since 2020 and forging brutal death metal from this former munitions town in central Sweden. The project channels industrial-strength extremity.
Goddess of Retribution is a Czech brutal death metal and deathcore act from Hruba Skala, formed in 2014, whose releases include 16-16, Lamnia, and Mutated Pinkie. The band brings a self-aware attitude to their brutality, stating that "it doesn't matter what we play but how we look at it."
Goddess of the Sun is a doom metal and rock band from Frankfurt am Main, Germany, formed in 2020, channeling slow, heavy, sun-worshipping doom from the Hessian financial capital. The band brings a warm, rock-inflected approach to classic doom metal.
Heavy Symphonic Deathcore out of Texas.
Goden is a death metal band from Helmond in North Brabant, formed in 2020. They deliver death metal from the Eindhoven metropolitan area.
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