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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.
Brand new out of Bozeman, Montana, Garbarge wasted no time in 2025 launching a collision of death metal brutality and grindcore speed that sounds exactly as chaotic as their deliberately mangled name suggests.
Garden of Bones is a progressive and melodic death metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, active since 2018 and blending progressive ambition with the melodeath tradition that made Sweden famous. The project channels Stockholm's rich extreme metal heritage.
Garden of Delight is a death/doom metal band from Olkusz in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, formed in 2016. They deliver crushing death/doom from the historic silver-mining town.
Garden of Eyes is a death metal band from Norwich in eastern England, formed in 2020. They deliver old-school death metal from the historic Norfolk capital.
Garden of Gods is a melodic death/doom metal band from Athens, formed in 2016. They blend melodic death metal sensibility with doom's crushing weight from the Greek capital.
One of the more enduring acts in the American melodic death metal underground, Gaithersburg, Maryland's Garden of Shadows has been weaving atmospheric grandeur into aggressive death metal since the early 2000s. Their sound leans cinematic without ever losing its teeth.
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