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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Odesa-based project launched in 2025, merging black metal, death metal, doom metal, and grindcore into an eclectic extreme metal fusion. Their genre-spanning approach defies easy categorization through sheer stylistic ambition.
Gurgling is a death metal and grindcore band from Kraków, Poland, formed in 2026 and representing the newest generation of Polish extreme metal. The project channels grinding brutality from one of Poland's most historic cities.
Gurgulator is a death/thrash metal/grindcore band from Macclesfield in Cheshire, formed in 2022. They channel grinding extremity from the Peak District edge town.
Gurkkhas is a technical and extreme death metal band from Lannion in Brittany, France, whose 2026 album American Life of Suffering on Plague Demon Records delivers twelve tracks of martial-themed brutality. The album features compositions exploring warfare and struggle through relentless technical precision.
Gust in Grief is a funeral doom/death metal band from Zhukovsky near Moscow, Russia, active since 2012 and delivering glacially slow, suffocating heaviness. Over a decade of activity reflects a commitment to the most oppressive tempos in extreme metal.
Death metal act from Ostersund in northern Sweden, active since 2017 and bringing brutality from the frozen reaches of Jamtland. Their punishing sound channels the harsh northern Swedish landscape through old-school death metal aggression.
Istanbul slam and brutal death metal three-piece formed in 2011, whose mid-paced slamming style on releases like 'The Reign of Pure Madness and Contagious Perversion' and 'Guttural Carnival' draws comparisons to Katalepsy and Abominable Putridity. Their dueling guttural vocalists deliver a relentless wall of low-end punishment.
Gutfuck is a brutal death metal band from Ulm, Germany, formed in 2023, dealing in the most savage end of the death metal spectrum. The project channels punishing brutality from the Swabian Danube city.
New Jersey's Guthook inhabit the most desolate end of funeral doom, stretching songs into extended meditations on grief and decay while weaving in death metal's tonal brutality. Active since 2014, they operate in real slow-motion darkness — the kind that takes hours to lift.
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