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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Ljubljana-based death metal and grindcore outfit formed in 2018, delivering rapid-fire extremity from Slovenia's capital. Their grinding assault combines the brutality of both genres into a concentrated sonic battering ram.
Newly formed in 2025, Glizzy Gobbler throws the entire brutal death metal playbook at the wall — slam, goregrind, grindcore, and sheer disgusting force — packaged inside a name that refuses to take itself seriously. The music does not share that restraint.
Detroit's Glockmouth launched in 2025 with a deathcore attack as blunt and urban as the city they came from — dense, mechanically brutal, and pointed like a barrel at everything soft. Motor City heaviness filtered through modern extreme metal.
Glondemir is a melodic death metal band from Balingen, Germany, formed in 2019, delivering Scandinavian-influenced melodeath from the Swabian Jura. The band combines melodic guitar harmonies with death metal aggression.
Florida's Gloombringer arrived in 2023 fully committed to the most brutal and anatomically absurd corners of slam — pit-collapsing breakdowns, guttural vocals, and the relentless low-end punishment that defines the genre. They bring gloom in the most literal tonnage sense.
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania's Gloominous Doom is one of the underground's stranger propositions — progressive death and thrash metal with recorded ska influences woven in, making for something genuinely difficult to categorize and harder to ignore. They've been at it since 2015.
Gloomlurker is a melodic death/doom metal band from Grimsby in northeast England, formed in 2020. They deliver the melancholic intersection of melodic death metal and doom from the Humber coast fishing town.
Atlanta's Gloomreach pulls death-doom into D-beat territory, pairing the glacial weight of death/doom with a rawer, more punk-informed attack that keeps the music from ever fully settling into complacency. Formed in 2018, they're one of Atlanta's more unpredictable extreme metal acts.
Gloomreaper is a doom/death metal band from Liverpool, formed in 2025. They bring crushing doom/death metal to the Merseyside city.
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