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Gifts of Blankets is an experimental black metal duo from Ghent who describe their sound as "sun-kissed black metal," weaving flamenco guitar traditions into a blackened framework. Their 2023 debut A La Mina No Voy Mas was recorded at Celestial Event Studio in Antwerp and released on cassette through Babylon Doom Cult Records.
Gigafauna is a progressive sludge metal band from Uppsala, Sweden, active since 2018 and crafting ambitious, dynamic sludge from this historic university city. The project pushes sludge metal into progressive territory.
Chicago's Gigan are among the most disorienting forces in progressive and technical death metal, dismantling conventional song structure in favor of alien, cosmos-eating compositions that feel genuinely unknowable. Since 2008, they've existed in a category largely of their own invention.
Giganto is a stoner/sludge/doom metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2010, delivering massive, fuzz-drenched heaviness from the Spanish capital. The band has built over fifteen years of monolithic riffing.
Gigantomachia is a melodic death metal band from Alatri in the Frosinone province of Lazio, formed in 2016. Named after the mythological battle between gods and giants, they deliver epic melodic death metal from central Italy.
Gigantomachy is a black metal project from Bergen, formed in 2016. Named after the mythological battle between gods and giants, they deliver black metal from Norway's western capital.
Gigatron is a heavy/speed metal band from Valencia, Spain, formed in 2020, combining classic heavy metal power with speed metal's velocity. The band brings high-energy metal to the Spanish Mediterranean coast.
Gigatron2000 is a stoner metal band from Tilburg, formed in 2020. They deliver massive stoner metal from the North Brabant city known for hosting Roadburn.
Named after the visionary Swiss artist, Columbus, Georgia's Giger pursue a similarly biomechanical aesthetic through sludge and doom metal — music that feels organic and industrial at the same time. Their riffs carry the weight of rusted machinery dragged through tar.
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