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Minnesota's Gates of Sanity play thrash metal that's direct, relentless, and clearly shaped by the genre's early '90s second wave — no frills, just tight riffs and propulsive rhythm work. Formed in 2020, they keep the old flame burning in the cold northern underground.
Melodic death metal outfit from Dol'any formed in 2018, weaving melodic guitar harmonies through death metal's aggressive framework. Their approach carries the emotional range and accessibility of the Scandinavian melodic death metal tradition.
From Plainview in the Texas Panhandle, Gates of Sodom have been battering out old-school death metal since 2020, drawing on the genre's foundational filth and brutality without reinventing the wheel. Uncompromisingly blunt and committed to the craft.
Louisville, Kentucky's Gates to Hell bridge the gap between death metal's brutality and metalcore's rhythmic aggression, a combination that hits hard in live settings. Formed in 2021, they bring a confrontational energy rooted in the Ohio Valley's hardcore tradition.
Columbus, Ohio's Gates to the Abyss fuse blackened venom with melodic death metal's harmonic depth, resulting in a sound that's simultaneously punishing and richly textured. Since forming in 2017, they've developed one of the more nuanced takes on the blackened melodeath hybrid.
Gateway is a Belgian death/doom solo project by the artist known as "R," based in Bruges, whose 2023 debut Galgendood on Transcending Obscurity Records was hailed as one of the year's strongest death doom records. The album's primitive, cavernous sound is paired with artwork by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, reflecting a bleak medieval aesthetic.
San Francisco's Gateways inhabit a singular space where progressive death metal collides with neoclassical shred, resulting in technically fearsome music that refuses to sit still. Since forming in 2011, they've pushed the limits of what guitar-driven extreme metal can absorb.
Gath is a death metal project of unclear geographic origin, shrouded in a deliberate obscurity that suits the biblical darkness of the name. Their Bandcamp presence under the handle 'gathsmane' hints at a conceptual depth that runs beneath the brutality.
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.
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