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People Watching (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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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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Gorka is a thrash metal band from Nice on the French Mediterranean coast, formed in 2013 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash in the tradition of the genre's classic European lineage. Their sound draws from the speed and intensity that defines the style.
GorlaThrog is a black/doom/death metal band from Novosibirsk, Siberia, formed in 2024 and merging three extreme metal genres from Russia's third-largest city. The project channels the darkness and weight of its triple-genre approach.
Gorleben is a doom/death metal and hardcore band from Dresden, Germany, formed in 2021, named after the controversial German nuclear waste storage site. The band channels political weight and crushing heaviness from the Saxon capital.
Gormathon is a melodic death metal band from Bollnäs, Sweden, active since 2014 and contributing to the Gothenburg-style melodeath tradition from the Hälsingland forests. The project channels melodic aggression through twin-guitar harmonies.
Gormless is a sludge/doom metal band from the United Kingdom, formed in 2017. Their self-deprecating British name contrasts with the serious heaviness of their sludge/doom approach.
Gormoth is an atmospheric black metal/ambient project from Fuzesgyarmat in eastern Hungary, formed in 2022. They blend atmospheric black metal with ambient textures from the rural Great Plain.
Gornan is a war black metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2025. The band released the six-track album 'Satanic in War' (May 2025), a collaborative effort featuring Holocausto, the pioneering Brazilian extreme metal band from Belo Horizonte.
Gornisht is a black metal project from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2021, whose name derives from the Yiddish word for "nothing." The project brings a distinctive cultural perspective to Berlin's diverse black metal underground.
Goro is a brutal death metal band from Bar-le-Duc in northeastern France, active since 2018 and dealing in relentless, crushing extremity. Their approach to the genre emphasizes sheer heaviness and uncompromising aggression.
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