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Gorsed Noctis is a five-piece brutal death metal band from Angoulême, France, formed in 2016 with drummer Kévin Paradis behind the kit. Their debut album Orgy on Meridians (2017) delivers nine tracks of uncompromising brutality drawing from classical and historical themes.
Heavy Doom Metal from Austin.
Gort is an avant-garde black metal project from Budapest, formed in 2020. They push black metal into experimental territory from the Hungarian capital.
Gortaigh is a psychedelic sludge/doom metal band from the Krasnodar Krai in southern Russia, formed in 2026 and blending mind-bending psychedelia with crushing sludge and doom. The project delivers hazy, oppressive heaviness.
Gortaven is a French one-man black metal project drawing from 1990s extreme metal and punk influences ranging from Marduk and Carpathian Forest to Discharge and GBH. The prolific solo effort has produced five releases including Damnation, Désolation, and Le Livre des Âmes, all steeped in raw aggression.
Gorthaur is a black metal project from Alsbach in Hesse, Germany, formed in 2025, named after Sauron's original Elvish name in Tolkien's legendarium. The project channels Tolkien-inspired darkness through raw black metal.
New Jersey's Gorthon have been crafting sludge-doom with weight and patience since 2021, building songs that move like slow erosion — unhurried, inevitable, and considerably heavier than anything that moves that slowly has any right to be.
Gorthrim is a death metal project from Kubschutz near Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, formed in 2025. The project is one of the newest death metal acts in the eastern German extreme metal underground.
Gorycz is an avant-garde black metal project from Olsztyn, formed in 2018. Their Polish name — meaning 'bitterness' — captures the acrid character of their experimental black metal from the Warmia-Masuria region.
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