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Ghold is a doom/sludge/avant-garde metal and noise rock band from London, active since 2012. They push the boundaries of doom and sludge metal into avant-garde and noise rock territory from the British capital.
Gholes is a death metal band from Montpellier, France, active from 1995 to 2010, with two full-length albums: Fleur de Soufre (2001) on Thundering Records and the concept album Coexistence (2005), the latter issued posthumously as a limited digipack in 2010. Their story spans fifteen years of French underground death metal.
Gholgoth is a black metal project from Szentes in southeastern Hungary, formed in 2015. They deliver black metal from the Great Plain near the Serbian border.
Ghor is a death metal and grindcore band from Noisy-le-Sec in the Paris suburbs, formed in 2023, delivering visceral, blast-driven extreme metal. Their sound channels the aggressive intensity of grindcore through a death metal framework.
Ghord is a death metal and thrash band from the Nancy region of France, formed in 2004, whose motto is 'One word: Efficiency, the rest is just literature.' Their catalog includes Goddess of Darkness, Underworld in Mourning, and All My Live, emphasizing direct, no-frills aggression.
Out of Gainesville, Florida — a city with deep metal roots — Ghore has been delivering vicious thrash/death metal hybrids since 2016, channeling the ferocity of both genres into tightly wound, relentless songs.
Charleston's Ghore (SC) operates in the slow, suffocating territory where sludge metal and doom overlap — crushing guitar tones, glacial tempos, and a Southern heaviness that feels like humidity turned into sound. They've been dragging listeners down since 2016.
Ghorm is a black metal project from Edinburgh, Scotland, formed in 2023. Their Gaelic name — meaning 'blue' or 'dark blue' — brings a distinctly Scottish character to their black metal from the Scottish capital.
Boise, Idaho's Ghorot merges blackened aggression with doom's cavernous, slow-moving devastation, producing music that feels like a frozen landscape slowly giving way underfoot. Active since 2019, they bring a remote, desolate quality to everything they touch.
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