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Gorgoroth

Gorgoroth, a Norwegian black metal band from Bergen formed in 1992 by Infernus (Roger Tiegs), named after Tolkien's Mordor plateau. Known for Satanic imagery, the 2004 Krakow controversy, and the 2007-2009 trademark dispute won by Infernus.

Gorilla (James Taylor album)

Gorilla is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter James Taylor, released in May 1975, with the hit singles "Mexico" and "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)".

Gorilla Biscuits

Gorilla Biscuits: New York straight edge hardcore punk band (formed 1986 or 1987), known for the 1988 EP Gorilla Biscuits and the 1989 album Start Today, Revelation Records' best-selling release; broke up 1991, members formed CIV, reunited 2005.

Gorillaz

Gorillaz are a British virtual band created in 1998 by musician Damon Albarn of Blur and comic artist Jamie Hewlett, with four animated characters fronting shifting musicians.

Gorillaz (album)

Gorillaz (2001), the self-titled debut album of Albarn and Hewlett's virtual band, blending hip hop, dub and lo-fi rock; UK #3, US #14, about seven million sold.

Gorod 312

Gorod 312 (Город 312) is a Russian-language pop-rock group formed in 2001 by musicians from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, named for the city's telephone code 312, and known for radio hits from film soundtracks.

Goryeo gayo

Goryeo gayo (고려가요), also called Goryeo jangga, are the vernacular Korean lyric songs created during the Goryeo dynasty, mainly love songs transmitted orally until written in hangul in the Joseon period; 14 survive.

Gospel (Nigerian)

Nigerian gospel is the gospel-music subscene of Nigerian popular music, a commercial lane whose "Way Maker" passed 100 million YouTube views and was translated into over 50 languages.

Gospel music

Gospel music, also called gospel singing, is Christian sacred music that emerged in the 1920s from African American church traditions, blending religious texts with blues and jazz rhythms.

Gospel Music Association

The Gospel Music Association is a trade association, founded in 1964 and based in Franklin, Tennessee, that promotes Christian and gospel music through education, advocacy, research, and preservation.

Gospel music festivals

Gospel music festivals are recurring multi-artist events devoted to gospel music, a black American Christian form; the largest include The Experience in Lagos and Chicago's free festival.

Gospel Music Hall of Fame

The Gospel Music Hall of Fame, run by the Gospel Music Association since 1971, honors performers, songwriters, and industry figures across Christian and gospel music.

Gospel rap

Gospel rap, also called Christian rap or holy hip hop, is a hip hop subgenre with Christ-centered lyrics that emerged in the mid-1980s and reached the Billboard 200 through Lecrae's Anomaly in 2014.

Gossip (band)

Gossip (formerly The Gossip) is an American indie rock trio formed in 1999 in Searcy, Arkansas, and Olympia, Washington, led by Beth Ditto with Nathan "Brace Paine" Howdeshell; known for Standing in the Way of Control (2006), Music for Men (2009), and the 2024 comeback album Real Power.

Got Me Singing

Got Me Singing is Jaafar Jackson's 2019 debut single on Jusic Group, co-written and co-produced with Hardy Indiigo, with a music video shot in Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro, later famous through the Michael biopic.

Got My Mind Set on You

Got My Mind Set on You: Rudy Clark song recorded by James Ray in 1962, covered by George Harrison, produced with Jeff Lynne for Cloud Nine (1987); his third and final US Billboard number one, number two in the UK, later parodied by Weird Al.

Got to Be There

Got to Be There is Michael Jackson's debut solo album, released by Motown on January 24, 1972 when he was 13. Its singles "Got to Be There" (No. 4 Hot 100) and "Rockin' Robin" (No. 2) launched his solo career.

Got to Get You into My Life

Got to Get You into My Life: Beatles song written mainly by Paul McCartney (credited Lennon-McCartney), released on Revolver, 5 August 1966; Motown-styled brass arrangement, Beatles' first horn section, McCartney's stated ode to marijuana; 1976 US single peaked at number 7.

Got Your Six

Got Your Six is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch, released September 4, 2015 on Prospect Park; it debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 with 119,000 units and was later certified RIAA Platinum.

Got7 (갓세븐)

GOT7 (갓세븐), seven-member K-pop boy group debuted 2014 under JYP Entertainment (JAY B, Mark, Jackson, Jinyoung, Youngjae, BamBam, Yugyeom); went independent via Warner Music Korea and released WINTER HEPTAGON with Kakao Entertainment in January 2025.

Goth Babe

Goth Babe is the indie pop/indie rock solo project of Griff Washburn, started in 2015 in Nashville and named after a Surf Curse song; debut album Lola (2024) on Mom+Pop, recorded off-grid on a sailboat.

Gothic metal

Gothic metal, also called gothic heavy metal, is a metal subgenre fusing gothic rock melancholy with metal aggression, emerging from early-1990s UK death/doom via Paradise Lost's album Gothic, with Theatre of Tragedy's beauty-and-the-beast vocals and scenes in Norway, Finland, and Germany.

Gothic rock

Gothic rock (goth rock) is a dark post-punk style from Britain, starting with Bauhaus's "Bela Lugosi's Dead" (1979) and the Sisters of Mercy, distinguished from deathrock, darkwave, and coldwave.

Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser

Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser (Kaiserhymne, Volkshymne) is Joseph Haydn's 1797 imperial anthem, text by Lorenz Leopold Haschka for Franz II; Habsburg anthem to 1918, Austrian anthem 1929–1938, and melody of Germany's Deutschlandlied since 1922.

Götterdämmerung

Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), WWV 86D, is Wagner's fourth and final Ring opera, premiered 17 August 1876 at Bayreuth; score completed 21 November 1874, originally conceived as Siegfrieds Tod.

Gotthard

Gotthard is a Swiss hard rock band from Lugano, formed in 1990, one of Switzerland's most successful rock acts with 17 Swiss number-one albums and more than 3.5 million records sold.

Gottwood

Gottwood, also billed as Gottwood Festival, is a boutique electronic music festival held in woodland on the Carreglwyd Estate in Anglesey, Wales, founded in 2010.

Gotye

Gotye (Wouter "Wally" De Backer, born 1980, Bruges) is a Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose 2011 single "Somebody That I Used to Know" with Kimbra sold nearly 15 million copies and won three Grammys; albums Boardface, Like Drawing Blood, Making Mirrors.

Götz Alsmann

Götz Alsmann, born 1957 in Münster, is a German musician and television presenter who plays German Schlager of the 1920s to 1950s in jazz style.

Gouge Away

Gouge Away is a hardcore punk band from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, formed in December 2012 and named after the Pixies song. After a 2020 hiatus, it returned with Deep Sage in 2024.