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Goblin King is a death 'n' roll band from London, formed in 2019. They fuse the aggression of death metal with the groove and swagger of rock 'n' roll from the British capital.
Albany, New York's Goblinectomy apply surgical brutality to their brutal death metal, surgically excising anything soft or restrained from their compositions. Formed in 2022, they are blunt, precise, and relentlessly heavy.
God Against Humanity is a black metal and death metal band from Lille, France, formed in 2018, with releases including the Castle of Dust demo (2018) and the full-length The Judgement. Their sound merges the ferocity of death metal with black metal's atmospheric hostility.
Marrero, Louisiana's God Awful channel the Southern bayou's humidity and menace into a death/thrash attack that sounds like it's been marinating in bad intentions since 2010. Their riffs carry both the groove of the Gulf Coast and the violence of classic death-thrash.
San Antonio's God Butcher combine technical death metal precision with the savagery of grindcore, producing music designed to overwhelm as quickly as possible. Active since 2023, they're among the most ferocious new arrivals in the Texas underground.
God Delusion is a death/thrash metal and metalcore band from Heidelberg, Germany, formed in 2013, blending aggressive thrash and death metal with metalcore breakdowns. The band operates in the university city's diverse heavy music scene.
God Dethroned is a blackened death metal band from Beilen in Drenthe, active since 1997. They are one of the most internationally recognized Dutch extreme metal acts, having released numerous critically acclaimed albums of precise, aggressive blackened death metal.
God Disease is a death-doom metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2014, with a prolific catalog of six releases including Apocalyptic Doom, Hymns for Human Extinction, and Drifting Towards Inevitable Death. Their work explores apocalyptic imagery and existential horror through crushing doom-laden death metal.
God Dog is a death metal band from Almendralejo in Extremadura, Spain, formed in 2013, whose palindromic name reflects a duality of sacred and profane. The band delivers death metal from one of Spain's most rural and least metal-saturated regions.
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