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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Giggerotah is a death metal band from Stavropol, Russia, active since 2014 and delivering punishing death metal from the North Caucasus region. The project channels unrelenting brutality.
Toms River's Giggler pull off an unlikely combination: fusing the grandiosity of power metal with the slow, oppressive crawl of doom. The result is something operatic and crushing in equal measure, a strange and compelling beast from the New Jersey underground.
Gigim Xul is a black metal project from Stavanger, formed in 2014. Named after a Sumerian concept of evil spirits, they deliver occult black metal from Norway's oil capital.
Gigrøma is a black metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, active since 2020 and forging dark extremity from Russia's cultural capital. The project channels the atmospheric intensity of black metal.
Gilgamesh is a blackened death metal act from Munich, Germany, formed in 2013, named after the ancient Sumerian king of Uruk. The project channels the intensity of blackened death metal from Bavaria's capital city.
Gilgamesj is a heavy metal band from Leerdam in South Holland, formed in 2016. Named after the ancient Sumerian king, they deliver epic heavy metal from the Dutch river country.
Gilgamosh are a death/thrash metal band formed in 2023 from St. Pölten and Vienna, Austria, representing a newer entry in the country's active extreme metal underground. They operate independently and have been building their catalog and live presence since their formation.
Giliath is a black metal project from Bari in Puglia, formed in 2023. They channel black metal from the capital of Italy's Adriatic south.
Giljotin is an industrial black metal project from Norway, formed in 2015. They merge industrial textures with black metal hostility.
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