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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Gnadab is a progressive death metal/deathcore band from Alphen aan den Rijn in South Holland, active since 2011. They blend technical death metal with deathcore from the Randstad urban ring.
Gnargod is a Russian death metal project active since 2023, channeling crushing brutality and unrelenting aggression through its death metal framework. The project operates in the Russian extreme metal underground.
Pennsylvania's Gnargoyles have carved out a grimy niche where crossover thrash collides head-on with death metal ferocity. Their sound is ugly, fast, and unrepentant — part pit fodder, part throat-ripping carnage.
Gnarled Hands is a blackened death metal project from Scotland, formed in 2025. They bring punishing blackened death metal to the Scottish extreme underground.
Washington state newcomers Gnashed Gash arrived in 2025 with a death metal identity as confrontational as their name. Unpolished and predatory, they trade in visceral extremity without apology.
Salinas, California's Gnashing of Teeth have spent over a decade honing a brutal death metal attack built for maximum physical impact. Their music is dense, punishing, and utterly indifferent to comfort.
Denver's Gnaul operate at the collision point of black and death metal, conjuring a sound as harsh as the Rocky Mountain winter. Formed in 2024, they waste no time establishing a dark, corrosive presence.
Cincinnati's Gnawing Void mine the blackened death corridor for something hollow and persistent — riffs that don't just hit but linger. Formed in 2024, they've embraced bleakness as both aesthetic and architecture.
Gnida is a brutal death metal/grindcore band from Krakow, active since 2012. They deliver grinding brutality from Poland's cultural capital.
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