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Gloomy Misanthropy is a one-man black metal and dark ambient project from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, driven entirely by the sole member known as Wandering Moribund. The project debuted with a 2016 demo and released its first full-length album, "Dark Procession from the Abyss," on July 11, 2021, through Astral Nightmare Productions, recorded and mixed at Wolf's Lair Home Studio between 2018 and 2020. Drawing on anti-cosmic Satanism and misanthropic themes, the project is rooted in the raw traditions of LLN, Abruptum, and Leviathan.
Gloomy Sunday is a sludge/doom metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, active since 2007 and delivering nearly two decades of crushing heaviness from the Swedish metal capital. Their longevity makes them one of Gothenburg's more enduring doom acts.
Gloosh is a black metal band from Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, active since 2020 and forging cold, aggressive black metal from the banks of the Yenisei River. The project draws from the harsh Siberian climate.
Gloria Victis is a heavy metal band from Almere, formed in 2012. Their Latin name — meaning 'glory to the vanquished' — signals the noble, battle-themed character of their heavy metal from the Flevoland polder city.
Gloriam Satanas is a symphonic black metal band from Campana, Argentina, formed around 2018–2020, featuring vocalist Gabriel Teggi (Tormentor), guitarist Agustín Ávila (Valtasael), bassist Maximiliano Gallipi (Barbol), and drummer Damián Cisneros (Dr. Satan). The band released their debut demo "Spell of Possession" in September 2020, followed by their first full-length "There Above, Here Below" in September 2022, and the concept album "Blood Mysticism" — exploring vampirism and lycanthropy — in November 2025.
Istanbul power and heavy metal act founded in 1995 by guitarist Ahmet Ucankus and vocalist Hakan Kul, standing as one of Turkey's longest-running traditional metal bands. Their heroic sound has carried the torch for classic heavy metal in Turkey for nearly three decades.
Glorifiera is a raw/depressive black metal band from Malmö, Sweden, active since 2016 and channeling despair and aggression through lo-fi, emotionally charged black metal. The project explores the most sorrowful reaches of the genre.
Memphis, Tennessee's Glorifying Dying channels black metal's nihilistic core with a directness that fits the city's long relationship with music made at the edge. Since 2015 they've been producing harsh, uncompromising black metal from the Deep South underground.
Founded in Paris in December 2002, Glorior Belli emerged as one of France's most distinctive black metal acts, distinguished by an increasingly pronounced integration of Southern rock, blues, and doom into their sound. Early albums like Manifesting the Raging Beast on Southern Lord and Meet Us at the Southern Sign on Candlelight Records built a reputation for orthodox ferocity, while The Great Southern Darkness on Metal Blade in 2011 fully realized their swampy, genre-crossing vision. Their idiosyncratic approach to black metal remains a reference point for the genre's experimental edges.
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