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Gae Bolga is a Belgian thrash metal act from West Flanders, active since 2000, whose founder also works across classical and varied popular music under the Gaë Bolg name, drawing on Breton mythology and philosophy. Their catalog includes releases like La ballade de l'Ankou and John Barleycorn Must Die, blending metal aggression with eclectic, folklore-steeped themes.
Gaerea is a masked Portuguese black metal band from Porto, evolving from raw black metal roots into atmospheric post-black metal territory, signed to Season of Mist. Their fourth album Coma (2024) challenges the archetype of black metal by coloring outside the genre's lines with melancholy texture, deep emotion, and devastating heaviness.
Gaf is a grindcore and death metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2008, blending grindcore's short-burst aggression with punk energy across releases like Mongofied (2008), Cultivate Disdain (2010), and Gore 'n' Feast (2015). Their sound is fast, filthy, and uncompromising, with an Entombed cover on their latest record nodding to Swedish death metal roots.
GAFR is a post-black metal/ambient project from Manchester, formed in 2019. They blend atmospheric post-black metal with ambient textures from one of England's most culturally vibrant cities.
Gagarin is a sludge/doom/post-metal band from Ponferrada, Spain, formed in 2013, named after the first human in space. The band channels cosmic heaviness through dense, atmospheric sludge and doom from the Leon province of Castile.
Dallas hardcore punk with death metal and powerviolence elements.
Black metal project from Yevpatoriya in Crimea, active since 2012 and channeling extreme darkness from the Black Sea coast. Their atmospheric aggression draws from the deep well of Eastern European black metal tradition.
Gagulta is a sludge metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2019. They deliver crushing sludge from the Greek capital's growing heavy music underground.
Gaia Epicus is a power metal band from Trondheim, active since 2003. Over two decades of power metal from the historic Norwegian capital make them one of the country's most enduring acts in a genre dominated by Finnish and German bands.
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