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Glaisemort is a raw black metal project from Clermont-Ferrand, France, formed in 2026, self-described as 'urban rot worship,' blending raw black metal, lo-fi production, dark ambient, and noise aesthetics. Their four-track demo includes a Lifelover cover alongside original compositions exploring shame and silence.
Raw, unpolished, and deliberately hostile, Glaive strips black metal back to its most primitive essentials — primitive tremolo lines, blizzard-blast drumming, and vocals dragged up from the frost. A project born in 2020 with no interest in compromise.
Glamhoth is a black metal project from Hauho, Finland, formed in 2021, drawing on the dark, atmospheric traditions of Finnish black metal. Their sound embraces the cold, hostile aesthetic that defines the Nordic black metal underground.
A newcomer from Columbus, Ohio, Glamoury arrived in 2025 bringing doom metal with an air of mystery bound up in its name — glamoury being an old word for enchantment or illusion. What they deliver is anything but an illusion: heavy, slow, and consuming.
Glamsdring is a black metal project from Ashford in Kent, formed in 2023. Named after Gandalf's elvish sword in Tolkien's legendarium, they channel Middle-earth-inspired black metal from southeast England.
Glanville is a heavy metal band from Darmstadt, Germany, formed in 2018, delivering traditional metal from the Hessian city known for its technical university. The band brings a classic heavy metal approach to the Rhine-Main metropolitan area.
Formed in 2013 in Traunstein on the Austrian-Bavarian border, Glare of the Sun craft a wide-spanning progressive doom and post-metal sound that moves through sludge, shoegaze, ambient, and folk textures across long, dynamic compositions. Signed to Lifeforce Records, their discography includes Soil (2017), Theia (2019), and TAL (2024), each album evolving the scope and density of their sound.
Glarus is a sludge/post-metal band from Manchester, formed in 2017. They blend crushing sludge with expansive post-metal dynamics from one of England's most musically fertile cities.
Glaser is a pagan metal project from the Grand Est region of France, formed in 2020, drawing on pre-Christian European themes and folk traditions within a heavy metal framework. Their sound merges pagan thematic material with the power and aggression of metal.
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