Downfall of Gaia is an extreme metal band from Germany whose roster includes members from Berlin, Hamburg, and New York City. Their sound combines elements of crustpunk, doom, sludge, and atmospheric post-black metal. From their earliest independently released demos -- 2008's The Downfall of Gaia and 2009's Salvation in Darkness -- through later albums for Metal Blade -- 2012's Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes and 2016's Atrophy -- their crunch & roll aesthetic offers jagged, raw, twin-tremolo-picked guitars, dissonance, blastbeats, uncharacteristically upmixed bass, and bar...