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Portland's Glasghote drags sludge through the mud of doom, coiling feedback and suffocating low-end into something that sounds like the Pacific Northwest itself — wet, gray, and pressing down. Since 2017 they've been one of the city's most punishing underground outfits.
Glasperlenspiel is a black metal project from Stuttgart, Germany, formed in 2014, whose name references Hermann Hesse's novel The Glass Bead Game. The project channels literary and philosophical depth through black metal from the capital of Baden-Wurttemberg.
Glass Cage is a melodic power metal band from Quattro Castella in the Reggio Emilia province, formed in 2020. They deliver melodic power metal from the Emilia-Romagna foothills.
Formed in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 2001, Glass Casket drew attention as much for their membership as their music, featuring Between the Buried and Me's Dustie Waring and Blake Richardson alongside vocalist Adam Cody. Their 2004 debut We Are Gathered Here Today on Abacus Recordings established them as a technically accomplished deathcore band, followed by Desperate Man's Diary in 2006 before the project went dormant. After years of inactivity, the band signed to Silent Pendulum Records in 2023 and released a self-titled EP, their first new material in seventeen years.
Lexington, Kentucky's Glass Coffin has been excavating the most frigid corners of black metal since 2014, building a sound that is both spectral and suffocating. There's a finality to their music that lives up to the name.
Connecticut's Glass Divide brings groove metal's locked-in chug and metalcore's emotional intensity together in a combination that hits hard and keeps moving. The Shelton outfit has been sharpening this dual-edged attack since 2017.
Kalamazoo's Glass God arrived in 2023 at the intersection of heavy metal's visceral punch and progressive metal's structural ambition, constructing songs that feel both grandiose and grounded. A young band with clearly large ideas.
Glass Killing Floor brings a blunt-force metalcore attack from the Louisville underground, pairing serrated riffing with the kind of emotional urgency that metalcore at its best has always traded in. They've been at it since 2019.
Glass Mind is an instrumental progressive metal quartet from Mexico City, formed in 2005. Their discography includes the full-lengths Haunting Regrets (2008, reissued 2011) and Dodecaedro (2017).
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