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AntiFragile (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Gwendydd is an all-female-fronted extreme metal band from Sofia, Bulgaria, formed in 2020, featuring a five-piece lineup with two guitarists delivering melodic death metal and metalcore. Their releases include the album Human Nature and the soundtrack piece The Nightmare Ends Tomorrow.
Gwiddonod is a black metal project from Wales, formed in 2025. Their Welsh-language name — meaning 'witches' — channels Welsh mythology and language through raw black metal.
Gwoid is a black metal, ambient, and noise project from Germany, formed in 2018, whose name is Bavarian dialect meaning "violence" or "force." The project blends harsh black metal with ambient and noise experimentation.
Gwyrd is a black metal project from Canencia near Madrid, Spain, formed in 2023 by Guillermo Cachofeiro, with releases including Poemas Místicos and Fungus Noctis. Their work blends mystical and nocturnal themes with atmospheric black metal textures.
Gyepű is a post-black metal band from Szeged, Hungary, active since 2017 and named after the medieval Hungarian border defense system, exploring atmospheric and expansive territories within black metal. The project's historically rooted name reflects its connection to Hungarian identity.
Swedish black metal project formed in 2016, channeling darkness and aggression through the genre's established sonic vocabulary. Their output contributes to Sweden's vast and varied black metal landscape.
Gyilkos is a band from Budapest, Hungary, that evolved from hardcore roots in 2015 into a crushing blend of sludge, doom metal, and hardcore. The project's name, meaning "murderer" in Hungarian, reflects the punishing weight of their later sound.
Gylliath is a black metal project from Pécs, Hungary, channeling the atmospheric darkness of Central European black metal from the cultural capital of southern Transdanubia. The project draws from the genre's most atmospheric and aggressive traditions.
Gymir is a black metal project from Lippoldsberg in the Weser highlands, Germany, formed in 2013, named after the Norse frost giant. The project channels Nordic-mythology-influenced black metal from the rural heart of Lower Saxony.
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