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Grand Old Wrath is a technical death metal band from Nordlingen, Germany, formed in 2017, combining complex technical proficiency with death metal's brutality from the medieval Swabian town. The band brings precision-crafted tech-death to the Bavarian countryside.
Formed in Twente, Netherlands in 2009 as The Company of Undertakers before adopting their current name, Grand Supreme Blood Court features core members from Dutch death metal institution Asphyx, including vocalist Martin van Drunen, guitarist Eric Daniels, and drummer Bob Bagchus. Their sole full-length Bow Down Before the Blood Court, released on Century Media Records in November 2012, is a down-tuned, old-school death metal statement drawing from Slaughter, Necrovore, and early Malhavoc. The band went on hiatus after 2015 and quietly returned in 2020.
GrandExit is a progressive death/thrash metal band from Västerås, Sweden, active since 2013 and blending progressive ambition with the aggression of death and thrash metal. The project pushes boundaries through compositionally complex extremity.
Grann is a death/thrash metal band from Poland, formed in 2023. They deliver aggressive death/thrash from the Polish underground.
Joliet, Illinois death metal outfit Granulated have been pulverizing since 2020, their name suggesting exactly what they intend to do to their listeners. Rooted in the Midwest's no-frills brutality, they trade in straight-ahead, guts-first death metal with no interest in subtlety.
Grape Seed is a death metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2021, delivering death metal from the capital's thriving extreme music underground. The band brings unexpected contrast between their botanical name and brutal sound.
Death metal act from the eastern Slovak town of Stropkov, active since 2013 and bringing over a decade of brutality from a small-town setting. Their dedication to death metal from an unlikely locale speaks to the genre's universal reach.
Founded at the end of 2020 in Linz, Graufar play blackened death metal that complements aggressive black metal riffing with death metal heaviness and melodic elements, debuting with the album Scordalus in April 2024. In June 2024 the band won the Austrian Wacken Metal Battle and competed at Wacken Open Air, placing in the top ten; their second album Via Necropolis followed in March 2026.
Graugeist is a black/death metal project from Saarland, Germany, formed in 2020, whose name translates to "grey ghost." The project blends the darkness of black metal with death metal's aggression from the Franco-German border region.
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