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Grendelsmere is a black/death metal project from the United Kingdom, active since 2001. Named after the mere where Beowulf slew Grendel's mother, they channel Old English literary darkness through extreme metal.
Grenouer is a veteran band from Perm, Russia, active since 1993 and evolving through thrash/death metal, industrial metal, and beyond across three decades. Their genre-spanning evolution reflects one of the most adventurous careers in Russian extreme metal.
Grenouer Inc. is a death metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2023 and operating as a distinct entity from the long-running Perm-based Grenouer. The project delivers crushing death metal from Russia's cultural capital.
Grenouille is a brutal death metal band from France, active since 2008. Their name — French for 'frog' — brings a darkly humorous national touch to their brutal death metal approach.
Grevia is a death metal/grindcore band from Palermo, Sicily, formed in 2019. They deliver grinding extremity from the Sicilian capital.
Grey Heaven Fall is a black/death metal band from Podolsk near Moscow, Russia, that evolved from melodic black/death origins in 2011 into a more aggressive black/death direction. The project channels ferocious extremity.
Formed in 2018 in Landeck, Tyrol, Greyback play a multifaceted melodic death metal rooted in aggression and melody, with additional thrash and black metal flourishes, drawing several members from the earlier Tyrolean act Avenging Angels. After the debut EP Insights (2020), they released their first full-length Built For Need in May 2024, recorded at the Synonym of Sound studio.
Baltimore's Greylotus represent the cutting edge of progressive deathcore, threading technical precision and unusual compositional structures through the genre's crushing heaviness. Since 2022, they've been one of the more ambitious young voices in an increasingly sophisticated scene.
Greywood Manor is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from Edinburgh, active since 2013. They blend melodic death metal with metalcore dynamics from the Scottish capital.
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