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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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Gunt is a death/thrash metal band from Weymouth in Dorset, active since 2012. They deliver aggressive death/thrash from the English south coast.
Kharkiv death metal act formed in 2014, delivering brutal extremity from Ukraine's second-largest city. Their punishing sound contributes to Kharkiv's reputation as a hub for extreme music despite the region's ongoing challenges.
Brutal death metal project from the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea, formed in 2021 and delivering guttural punishment from one of Sweden's most isolated locales. Their remote island origins lend an appropriately harsh edge to their extreme sonic vision.
Odesa-based project launched in 2025, merging black metal, death metal, doom metal, and grindcore into an eclectic extreme metal fusion. Their genre-spanning approach defies easy categorization through sheer stylistic ambition.
Gurgling is a death metal and grindcore band from Kraków, Poland, formed in 2026 and representing the newest generation of Polish extreme metal. The project channels grinding brutality from one of Poland's most historic cities.
Gurgulator is a death/thrash metal/grindcore band from Macclesfield in Cheshire, formed in 2022. They channel grinding extremity from the Peak District edge town.
Gurkkhas is a technical and extreme death metal band from Lannion in Brittany, France, whose 2026 album American Life of Suffering on Plague Demon Records delivers twelve tracks of martial-themed brutality. The album features compositions exploring warfare and struggle through relentless technical precision.
Gust in Grief is a funeral doom/death metal band from Zhukovsky near Moscow, Russia, active since 2012 and delivering glacially slow, suffocating heaviness. Over a decade of activity reflects a commitment to the most oppressive tempos in extreme metal.
Death metal act from Ostersund in northern Sweden, active since 2017 and bringing brutality from the frozen reaches of Jamtland. Their punishing sound channels the harsh northern Swedish landscape through old-school death metal aggression.
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