Great White are a Los Angeles hard rock band whose best-known work brought bluesy swagger into the glam metal era without losing a bar-band sense of grit. Formed in 1977 around guitarist Mark Kendall and vocalist Jack Russell, the group moved through local club years before breaking nationally with Once Bitten and ...Twice Shy. Songs such as "Rock Me," "Save Your Love," "The Angel Song," and the Ian Hunter cover "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" made the band a major presence on late-1980s rock radio and MTV. Great White's music is less theatrical than some Sunset Strip peers, leaning instead on slide-touched guitar phrasing, hard-swinging rhythms, and Russell's raspy, blues-informed vocal style. The band fits hard rock and metal-adjacent scope through a catalog rooted in heavy guitars, arena choruses, and glam-era production, but their personality often comes from older blues rock instincts. Their history also carries tragedy and complicated lineup splits, yet the core musical identity remains clear. At their strongest, Great White sounded like a club-tested rock band scaled up for arenas, built around riffs, smoke, and a singer who could make polished songs feel weathered.

Virginia's Green deal in the heavy, murky end of sludge metal — slow tempos, distortion thick enough to choke on, and an unshakeable sense of dread. Since 2019, they've been letting the weight accumulate rather than trying to outrun it.

From Elmore, Vermont, Green Chapel bring a pastoral, earthy quality to stoner metal — fuzz-heavy and slow-burning, with an atmosphere that calls to mind ancient woods rather than desert highways. Formed in 2016, they make heavy music with a distinctly northeastern character.

Formed in Denver, Colorado in 2014, Green Druid play a psychedelic strain of stoner doom that leans into Lovecraftian atmosphere and isolationist weight rather than simple Sabbath worship. Their 2018 debut Ashen Blood on Earache Records established the band's slow-burning, riff-heavy approach, followed by At the Maw of Ruin in 2020, which expanded the sonic palette while preserving the fundamental density. The band approaches the genre with enough self-awareness to actively push beyond its conventions.

Brooklyn's Green Hog Band blend psychedelic rock, stoner riffing, and doom-paced heaviness into something loose-limbed and groove-driven. Since 2020 they've been staking out the cosmic, smoke-hazed intersection of those worlds in New York City's underground.

New Jersey's Green Inferno draw their name from the cannibal horror tradition and channel that aesthetic into slow, suffocating doom metal built on mountainous riffs. Since 2019, they've been making music as heavy and unpleasant as the films that inspired them.

Green Mist operate in the raw, unpolished margins of black metal — thin production, corrosive guitar tones, and a cold atmosphere that seeps in like fog. Active since 2021, this project finds its power in intentional austerity rather than studio polish.

Dallas stoner/doom trio. Massive fuzzy riffs and heavy grooves.

Louisville, Kentucky's Greyhaven emerged in 2013 with a brand of chaotic, noise-infused metalcore that feels genuinely dangerous. Their albums 'Empty Black' and 'This Bright and Beautiful World' pair dissonant guitar work with frantic vocal delivery, creating a sound that's as intellectually stimulating as it is viscerally intense. The band's refusal to follow trends in favor of their own abrasive vision has earned them a devoted following among fans of adventurous heavy music.