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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
Featured Power Metal Album
Black Ninja (2013)
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Sinner (Unlucky 13th Anniversary Deluxe Edition / Bonus Commentary / Disc Two) (2015)
06/17 @ G Live Guildford, Guildford
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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Istanbul slam and brutal death metal three-piece formed in 2011, whose mid-paced slamming style on releases like 'The Reign of Pure Madness and Contagious Perversion' and 'Guttural Carnival' draws comparisons to Katalepsy and Abominable Putridity. Their dueling guttural vocalists deliver a relentless wall of low-end punishment.
Gutfuck is a brutal death metal band from Ulm, Germany, formed in 2023, dealing in the most savage end of the death metal spectrum. The project channels punishing brutality from the Swabian Danube city.
New Jersey's Guthook inhabit the most desolate end of funeral doom, stretching songs into extended meditations on grief and decay while weaving in death metal's tonal brutality. Active since 2014, they operate in real slow-motion darkness — the kind that takes hours to lift.
Gutlock is a thrash/death metal band from Baunatal near Kassel, Germany, formed in 2024, combining thrash speed with death metal heaviness. The project is a newer entry in the Hessian extreme metal scene.
Gutrectomy is a slam/brutal death metal and deathcore band from Lorrach on the Swiss-French-German border, formed in 2014, evolving from early slam brutality into a more refined brutal deathcore approach. The band operates in the unique cultural triangle of the Upper Rhine.
Devastating Death Metal from Dallas.
Gutrot is a death metal and grindcore band from Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe in southern France, active since 2015 and dealing in the filthiest extremes of grinding death metal. Their sound emphasizes visceral aggression and uncompromising heaviness.
Guts is a death metal band from Turku, Finland, active since 2011, delivering raw, aggressive extreme metal rooted in the Finnish death metal tradition. Their sound channels the visceral intensity and unrelenting heaviness that defines Turku's metal underground.
Guts of Despoty is a death metal band from Izhevsk, Russia, formed in 2022 and delivering crushing death metal from the Udmurt Republic. The project channels unrelenting extremity from the Urals.
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