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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Free the Witch EP (2018)
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Brutal Death Metal / Hardcore / Grindcore from Fort Worth.
Baltimore's technical death metal crew Garuda shares its mythological name with the Fort Worth project but delivers a distinctly different beast — intricate, precise, and rooted in technical death metal's most demanding traditions. Formed in 2018 in one of the East Coast's most fertile extreme metal scenes.
Out of Arlington Heights, Illinois, Gas Mask Catalogue melds melodic death metal's harmonic drive with metalcore's cathartic dynamics, carving out a sound that's been evolving since 2009. The Chicago suburbs have produced a band with broader stylistic ambition than their geography might suggest.
Eugene, Oregon's Gash hits with the blunt force of meat-and-potatoes death metal — straightforward, ugly, and deliberate. Formed in 2018, they operate in Oregon's growing extreme metal underground with no interest in softening anything.
Baltimore's Gash — distinct from the Oregon act of the same name — injects hardcore's hostile energy directly into death metal's DNA, producing something punkier and more caustic than either genre alone. Active since 2018 in one of the mid-Atlantic's most active underground scenes.
Gash Faith is an industrial/death metal band from Warsaw, formed in 2019. They merge industrial textures with death metal from the Polish capital.
Freshly formed in 2025 out of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Gash Mallet arrived swinging with slam and brutal death metal at its most blunt and physical. The project joins a growing wave of Pacific Northwest bands pushing the genre's most extreme limits.
Alexandria, Virginia's Gasmask616 pulls from melodic death metal, deathcore, and beyond, treating genre as a suggestion rather than a constraint. Active since 2021, they've built a catalog that moves fluidly across the extreme metal spectrum.
Gastljus is a folk/black/death metal band from Skåne, Sweden, active since 2011 and weaving Scandinavian folk traditions into extreme metal from southern Sweden. The project merges ancient folk with aggressive black and death metal.
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