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Geisterfels is a French medieval atmospheric black metal project formed in 2017 by Nebel, Aldébaran, and Aharon, whose debut La Névrose de la Pierre tells the story of a 19th-century French poet's journey through the Rhine and Mosel valleys. The concept album draws parallels between castle ruins and mental collapse across eight tracks of historically grounded black metal.
Geisterseher is a one-man experimental black metal project from Paraná, Brazil, operating as a side project of Draugur, the sole member of the main band Paarthurnax. The project released the four-track EP "Fragmento Espectral" in April 2020, weaving atmospheric and experimental textures across tracks including "Aldebaran," "Ad Hominem," and "The Void."
Geistlicht is an atmospheric and melodic black metal project from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2022, with a prolific catalog including Passage into Desolation, Among the Stars and the Abyss, and Hidden in the Mists. The project channels cosmic and melancholic themes through layered atmospheric black metal.
Fresh out of Chicago's underground in 2024, Geistwolfe play raw black metal with the immediacy of a project that has something to prove. Minimally produced and aggressive, they are among the city's newest additions to the raw black metal tradition.
Gelal is a black metal act from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2014, operating in the tradition of raw, uncompromising black metal. The project contributes to Hamburg's diverse extreme metal underground.
A New York project fusing raw black metal with folk sensibilities, Gelassenheit — a German word denoting yielding or serenity — subverts its own name with abrasive, earthy compositions since 2020. The folk element adds texture without softening the edge.
Erie, Pennsylvania's Gelatin Skeleton arrived in 2022 with a name that suggests something between horror and dark humor, and their death metal follows through on that sensibility. Ugly, visceral, and unapologetically underground.
Named after the dungeon-crawling RPG monster, Portland's Gelatinous Cube have been delivering slam and brutal death metal since 2016 with the slow, all-consuming menace the name implies. Northwest brutality with a knowing wink.
Melbourne-based hardcore outfit GELD formed around 2013 and quickly distinguished themselves through a ferocious blend of d-beat, Japanese noisecore, and Italian raw punk. Their 2020 LP Beyond the Floor, released via Iron Lung and Static Shock Records, refined their churning psychedelic attack, and they followed it with Currency // Castration on Relapse Records, their most ambitious and abrasive statement yet. The band draws from a wide spectrum of underground extremity while remaining rooted in punk's confrontational directness.
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