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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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La Cienega, New Mexico's Gouch arrived in 2024 combining grindcore's velocity with deathcore's breakdown-driven brutality — short, violent, and coming from one of the more unexpected corners of the American extreme metal map.
Gouge is a death/thrash metal band from Kolbotn south of Oslo, formed in 2016. They deliver aggressive death/thrash from the same suburb that spawned Darkthrone and Kolbotn's legendary black metal scene.
Nashville's Gouged Out channel death metal's brutality through hardcore's confrontational urgency since 2023, producing something that hits with the bluntness of a fist rather than the technicality of a scalpel. Visceral and direct.
Gouger is a death metal/grindcore band from Glasgow, formed in 2021. They deliver violent, grinding extremity from Scotland's central belt.
Jarrell, Texas's Gourge are a 2024 arrival to the brutal death metal tradition, pushing the genre's heaviest conventions with the intensity that Central Texas's extreme underground has been cultivating for years. Early days, but already relentless.
Kansas City's Gourmand approach progressive technical death metal with the conceptual ambition the name implies since 2017 — feasting on harmonic complexity and rhythmic density, building compositions that demand attention and reward it.
Gout is a death metal/goregrind band from London, formed in 2022. They channel visceral extremity from the London underground.
Cleveland's Gouted Corpse emerged in 2024 with the kind of putrid, bone-grinding death metal that feels native to the Rust Belt's industrial decay. Raw and unpolished, they channel old-school brutality without apology.
Goya is a solo death metal and grindcore project based in Avellaneda, Argentina, operating across genres including slam and brutal death. The project released the demo "La gran mentira" on December 17, 2022, a six-track release composed, recorded, and mastered between April and December of that year, with production handled under the handle @xnchrst. The concise, under-eight-minute runtime and numerically titled tracks reflect a stripped-down, high-intensity approach to the death-grind format.
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