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Crushing Death Metal / Grindcore from Houston.
Houston's Ganglion combine death metal's visceral weight with grindcore's frantic tempo and brevity, carving out a space in one of Texas's most active extreme metal cities. Since 2013, they've been a caustic fixture in the Houston underground.
New Jersey's Gangora have been grinding out a caustic death/grind hybrid from East Brunswick since 2020, leaning into the genre's most abrasive tendencies with clear enthusiasm. Short, sharp, and ugly in all the right ways.
Gangrena are a death metal band from Chillán, Ñuble, Chile, formed in 2005 and affiliated with Australis Records. Their 2020 album "Oscuro Tormento," described by the band as their fourth full-length and brutal from start to finish, cemented their standing as one of the more enduring acts in the Chilean provincial death metal underground.
Gangrenectomy is a slam/brutal death metal band from Catania, Sicily, formed in 2017. They deliver the guttural heaviness of slam death metal from the foot of Mount Etna.
Gangrenomity is a brutal death metal act from Bellinzona in the Italian-speaking Ticino region of Switzerland, formed in 2014 with members from Insomnia Isterica. Their 2014 demo was a raw, DIY recording with drums captured in a single take and no triggers, yielding three tracks of slamming brutality.
Los Angeles brutal death metallers Gangrenous Consumption operate at the outer limits of heaviness, building their sound on relentless low-end punishment and technical brutality since 2018. They're part of a strong Southern California brutal death scene with no shortage of extremity.
Pennsylvania's Gangrenous Flesh Consumption go all the way down with slam-inflected brutal death metal that prioritizes maximum heaviness above everything else. Since 2021, they've been stacking breakdowns and guttural savagery in one of the East Coast's most fertile extreme metal ecosystems.
Heavy Death Metal out of Texas.
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