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The Interior Wilderness (Drumcorps Remix) (2023)
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Gilgamesh is a blackened death metal act from Munich, Germany, formed in 2013, named after the ancient Sumerian king of Uruk. The project channels the intensity of blackened death metal from Bavaria's capital city.
Gilgamosh are a death/thrash metal band formed in 2023 from St. Pölten and Vienna, Austria, representing a newer entry in the country's active extreme metal underground. They operate independently and have been building their catalog and live presence since their formation.
Gimli, Son of Gloin is a death metal/grindcore band from Southampton, formed in 2019. Named after Tolkien's dwarven warrior, they bring literary irreverence to their grinding death metal from the Hampshire coast.
Ginger Brain Man is a solo extreme metal project from Caen, France, formed in 2011, blending death metal, grindcore, black metal, noise, and psychedelic rock into a dark, avant-garde hybrid. The eleven-track debut Terreurs Nocturnes delivers surreal, genre-defying extreme metal across forty-two minutes.
California's Gingivitis take the goregrind tradition literally, pairing death metal's brutality with grindcore's hyper-compressed intensity and a gleefully grotesque aesthetic. Since 2022, they've specialized in punishing short-form attacks on the senses.
Ginsberg is a melodic death metal band from Dusseldorf, Germany, with roots stretching back to 1983, making them a remarkably long-running presence in the Rhine-Ruhr metal scene. The band channels the Gothenburg-influenced melodic death metal style through a German lens.
Girders is a symphonic black/death metal project from Scotland, formed in 2017. They pair orchestral symphonic elements with the aggression of both black and death metal from north of the border.
Lowell's Girthquake hit harder and faster than their name's stoner connotations might suggest, blending death metal's brutality with hardcore's blunt-force immediacy. Their Massachusetts origin gives the music a cold, industrial edge.
Queensbury, New York's Girthquake channel death and thrash metal into a sound that's simultaneously old-school in its riff vocabulary and aggressive in its forward momentum. One of three unrelated bands sharing this name, they hold their own on the strength of pure speed and spite.
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