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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Sinner (Unlucky 13th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (2014)
06/17 @ G Live Guildford, Guildford
Featured Groove Metal Album
The Jester Race (Black Ash-Inheritance Version) (2022)
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Guillty is a death metal/grindcore band from Leeds, formed in 2021. They deliver grinding death metal from the West Yorkshire city.
Riverside, California's Guiltholder combine black metal's hostility, death metal's heft, and crust punk's raw political charge into a sound that's aggressive on every axis. Since 2022, they've been one of the more creatively volatile acts to emerge from the inland California extreme underground.
Guilty of Reason is a metal band from Strasbourg, France, spreading heavy/thrash/death metal and hardcore since 2004 with unwavering intensity. Their album Shades of Sanity (2013) was produced by Anthony Chognard and mastered at Kohlekeller Studios in Germany.
Gullinbursti is a French melodic death metal project formed in 2020, named after the golden boar of Norse mythology and channeling epic melodic sensibilities into aggressive death metal. The project draws from both Scandinavian melodeath traditions and mythological themes.
Gulu Locus is a doom/death metal band from Prato, Tuscany, active since 1999. Over a quarter century of crushing doom/death from the Tuscan textile city.
Gum-Hen is a death metal and groove band from the Nortorf/Eisendorf area in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, formed in 2012, evolving from hardcore origins into a heavier death metal sound with groove influences. The band brings extreme metal to Germany's northernmost state.
Gunja is a death metal/hardcore band from Perugia, active since 2006. They merge death metal aggression with hardcore intensity from the Umbrian capital.
Gunpowder is a death/thrash metal band from Ostrava, Czech Republic, formed in 2020, combining the speed of thrash with the heaviness of death metal in the industrial Silesian capital. The band channels the aggressive spirit of Ostrava's storied metal underground.
Gunsen is a melodic death and power metal band from Toruń, Poland, active since 2016 and blending melodic death metal's aggression with power metal's soaring energy from the historic Vistula city. The project bridges two melodic extremes of the metal spectrum.
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