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Gluttony is a death metal band from Split, Croatia, formed in 2014. They deliver death metal from the ancient Dalmatian port city on the Adriatic coast.
Kyiv melodic death metal project formed in 2020, weaving melodic guitar work through death metal's aggressive framework from Ukraine's capital. Their approach carries the emotional resonance of the Scandinavian melodic death metal tradition.
Gmoh is a sludge/death/post-metal band from Wroclaw, formed in 2017. They blend sludge weight with death metal aggression and post-metal atmospherics from the Lower Silesian capital.
Gnadab is a progressive death metal/deathcore band from Alphen aan den Rijn in South Holland, active since 2011. They blend technical death metal with deathcore from the Randstad urban ring.
Gnargod is a Russian death metal project active since 2023, channeling crushing brutality and unrelenting aggression through its death metal framework. The project operates in the Russian extreme metal underground.
Pennsylvania's Gnargoyles have carved out a grimy niche where crossover thrash collides head-on with death metal ferocity. Their sound is ugly, fast, and unrepentant — part pit fodder, part throat-ripping carnage.
Gnarled Hands is a blackened death metal project from Scotland, formed in 2025. They bring punishing blackened death metal to the Scottish extreme underground.
Washington state newcomers Gnashed Gash arrived in 2025 with a death metal identity as confrontational as their name. Unpolished and predatory, they trade in visceral extremity without apology.
Salinas, California's Gnashing of Teeth have spent over a decade honing a brutal death metal attack built for maximum physical impact. Their music is dense, punishing, and utterly indifferent to comfort.
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