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Great Voyager is a heavy metal band from the Nikaia/Piraeus area near Athens, formed in 2018. They deliver adventurous heavy metal from the harbor district of the Greek capital.
Great White are a Los Angeles hard rock band whose best-known work brought bluesy swagger into the glam metal era without losing a bar-band sense of grit. Formed in 1977 around guitarist Mark Kendall and vocalist Jack Russell, the group moved through local club years before breaking nationally with Once Bitten and ...Twice Shy. Songs such as "Rock Me," "Save Your Love," "The Angel Song," and the Ian Hunter cover "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" made the band a major presence on late-1980s rock radio and MTV. Great White's music is less theatrical than some Sunset Strip peers, leaning instead on slide-touched guitar phrasing, hard-swinging rhythms, and Russell's raspy, blues-informed vocal style. The band fits hard rock and metal-adjacent scope through a catalog rooted in heavy guitars, arena choruses, and glam-era production, but their personality often comes from older blues rock instincts. Their history also carries tragedy and complicated lineup splits, yet the core musical identity remains clear. At their strongest, Great White sounded like a club-tested rock band scaled up for arenas, built around riffs, smoke, and a singer who could make polished songs feel weathered.
Greed Killing is a death metal and grindcore act from Herne in the Ruhr Valley, Germany, formed in 2023, named after the Napalm Death song. The project channels relentless deathgrind from the industrial heartland.
Greedkick is a progressive death metal band from Avesta, Sweden, active since 2013 and crafting ambitious, technically demanding death metal from the Dalarna iron-mining region. The project pushes death metal into progressive territory.
Virginia's Green deal in the heavy, murky end of sludge metal — slow tempos, distortion thick enough to choke on, and an unshakeable sense of dread. Since 2019, they've been letting the weight accumulate rather than trying to outrun it.
Green Asylum is a stoner/doom metal band from Pulawy in the Lublin Voivodeship, formed in 2014. They deliver heavy stoner doom from the Vistula River city in eastern Poland.
Green Cachalot is a stoner metal band from Volzhsky, Russia, active since 2014 and delivering fuzz-laden, groove-heavy riffs from the Volga region. The project's cetacean-themed name reflects its massive, deep-diving approach to heaviness.
Green Carnation is a gothic/progressive metal band from Kristiansand, active since 2000, having evolved from early death metal origins. Led by Terje Vik Schei, they have become one of Norway's most respected progressive metal acts, with albums like Light of Day, Day of Darkness showcasing their ambitious, genre-transcending approach.
From Elmore, Vermont, Green Chapel bring a pastoral, earthy quality to stoner metal — fuzz-heavy and slow-burning, with an atmosphere that calls to mind ancient woods rather than desert highways. Formed in 2016, they make heavy music with a distinctly northeastern character.
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