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Undercover Scumbag (2018)
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A Stare Bound in Stone (2018)
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Of Stone, Wind, & Pillor (Remastered) (2021)
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Brutal death metal project from Ankara formed in 2022, delivering guttural extremity from Turkey's capital city. Their punishing approach adds to Ankara's increasingly active death metal community.
Gentihaa is a symphonic death/black metal band from Athens, formed in 2019. They pair orchestral grandeur with extreme metal intensity from the Greek capital.
Kaliningrad-based sludge and stoner metal outfit formed in 2015, delivering low-tuned heaviness from Russia's Baltic exclave. Their fuzz-drenched sound channels the hypnotic repetition and crushing weight central to the sludge and stoner traditions.
Gentry Lord is a solo progressive and power metal project from Finland, created entirely by Jori von Meriläinen, who composes, performs, and designs all aspects of the project. The 2013 debut Signals From The Mystiverse shifts seamlessly from power to thrash to spacey prog across cosmic and mystical concept narratives, released on CD by Stormspell Records.
Genuflection is a death/doom metal band from Galway, Ireland, active since 2020 and channeling crushing heaviness from the west coast of Ireland. The project merges the brutality of death metal with doom's suffocating weight.
Genune is a black metal act from Bacău, Romania, emerging in 2018. They carry forward Romania's deep-rooted black metal tradition from the Moldavian region.
Genus Ordinis Dei is a symphonic death/groove metal/metalcore band from Crema in the Cremona province, formed in 2016. They blend symphonic grandeur with modern extreme metal from the Lombard plains.
Geocide is a five-piece black/death metal band from Bonn, Germany, formed in 2021, whose debut Of Places Where the Light Won't Shine (2021) was mixed by Peter C and mastered at Iguana Studios. The six-track album features dual guitars, commanding vocals, and polished production across thirty-four minutes.
Geodaehan is a funeral doom metal project from Norway, formed in 2018. They deliver the glacial heaviness of funeral doom from the Norwegian underground.
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