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Long Island's Gaveldown have been hammering out groove-inflected thrash from Deer Park since 2009, one of the more persistent presences in New York's suburban metal underground. Their riffs lock into a mid-tempo pocket that makes their music feel both heavy and deeply listenable.
Gavelkind is a doom/death metal band from Durham in northeast England, formed in 2025. Named after the medieval system of land inheritance, they bring historically informed doom/death to the university city.
Gavran is a sludge/doom metal band from Rotterdam, formed in 2020. They deliver crushing sludge and doom from the Netherlands' largest port city.
Gavranar is a Bosnian folk metal project created in 2011 by Armin Odobašić from Hadžići, blending thrash metal with Balkan folk instruments and traditions drawn from sevdalinka, kolo, medieval, Celtic, and renaissance music sources, including recorder, accordion, and bagpipes. Their 2013 five-track demo EP Where the Winds Are Clawed explores the relationship between humanity, nature, and the eternal conflict between good and evil.
Gavrhoth is a black metal/ambient project from Como in Lombardy. They blend atmospheric black metal with ambient textures from the lakeside city.
Gavvakh is a melodic death/thrash/black metal band from Tver, Russia, formed in 2025 and blending three extreme metal genres into a versatile assault. The project channels multi-faceted aggression from central Russia.
American Canyon, California's Gawdamn blend heavy and thrash metal with the kind of attitude that makes it clear they are not here to negotiate. Formed in 2020, they bring a blunt, no-nonsense energy to a region more commonly associated with progressive and tech-death.
Gawither is a thrash metal/crossover band from Merano in the South Tyrol, formed in 2013. They deliver crossover thrash from the German-speaking alpine spa town.
Gaylord is a black metal band from London, formed in 2018. They bring a deliberately provocative name to their black metal from the British capital's diverse extreme music underground.
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