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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Springfield, Missouri's Galactic Massacre have been dealing in no-frills death metal since 2018, channeling outer-space dread into relentless, down-tuned brutality.
Toledo, Ohio's Galactic Mechanics have spent over a decade — since 2011 — constructing progressive death metal that rewards careful listening, mixing technical intricacy with the raw force of extreme metal.
College Station, Texas's Galactic Morgue draw from doom, heavy metal, and punk to create a genre-blurring sound with one foot in the grave and the other on a fuzz pedal. Active since 2019.
Baltimore's Galactic Skyfather have been refining a hybrid of melodic death and power metal since 2017, wielding soaring melodies with enough aggression to keep things from ever getting comfortable.
The name alone sets expectations: Owensboro, Kentucky's Galactic Tyrannosaur bring a prehistoric, lumbering weight to stoner and doom metal, crushing everything in their path since 2019.
Galactomyces is a slam and brutal death metal band from Rostov-on-Don, Russia, formed in 2024 and delivering gut-churning brutality from southern Russia. The project merges slam's guttural weight with deathcore breakdowns.
Bratislava gothic/doom/death metal veterans founded in 1995, whose Tolkien-inspired name matches a sound steeped in science fiction, fantasy, and psychedelia. Albums like 'Empire of Emptiness' and 'The Mirror of Ages' established them as pillars of the Slovak metal scene across three decades of activity.
Galahad is a doom and gothic metal band from Brissac-Quincé in the Loire Valley, France, formed in 2011, merging the weighty despair of doom metal with gothic metal's dark romanticism. Their sound explores the intersection of crushing heaviness and atmospheric, melancholic beauty.
Galaksyon is a Russian power/heavy metal project active since 2020, delivering soaring melodies and classic metal power. The project channels the epic traditions of power metal.
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