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Freshly formed in 2025 out of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Gash Mallet arrived swinging with slam and brutal death metal at its most blunt and physical. The project joins a growing wave of Pacific Northwest bands pushing the genre's most extreme limits.
Gastrectomy is a slam/brutal death metal band from Somerset in southwestern England, formed in 2024. Their surgical name — referring to stomach removal — signals the medical-horror fixation of their slam death metal.
Gathering Darkness is a death/doom and brutal death metal band from Santander in Cantabria, Spain, active since 2000, evolving from early death/doom into a more brutal approach. The band has built a quarter-century of extreme metal from Spain's northern coast.
Philadelphia's Geisha Dissection specialize in the pummeling intersection of slam and brutal death metal, a style they have pursued with single-minded focus since forming in 2019. Slow breakdowns and guttural extremity define their approach.
Named after the dungeon-crawling RPG monster, Portland's Gelatinous Cube have been delivering slam and brutal death metal since 2016 with the slow, all-consuming menace the name implies. Northwest brutality with a knowing wink.
General Fibrosis is a slam and brutal death metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2023 and dealing in the most extreme forms of guttural death metal. The project channels medical horror through punishing brutality.
Brutal death metal from Salinas, California, Genethliac have been sharpening their sound since 2014 with the low-end density and surgical aggression the genre demands. Their name refers to astrology of nativities — the stars, apparently, align violently.
Houston's Genital Grinder have been a fixture of the Texas death metal underground since 2002, a two-decade run that puts them among the genre's more resilient local acts. Brutal by name and by nature.
Tucson's Genocaust deliver brutal death metal from the Sonoran Desert with a sound as arid and punishing as the landscape since 2012. Low-tuned, heavy, and unrelenting — desert brutality at its most direct.
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