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The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Graceful Degradation is a deathcore band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2026 and representing the newest generation of Russian extreme metal. The project delivers crushing breakdowns and guttural fury.
Grave Insanity is a technical death metal and deathcore band from Bochum, Germany, formed in 2021, combining intricate technical playing with deathcore's punishing breakdowns. The band operates at the intersection of precision and brutality in the Ruhr Valley scene.
Grave Pact is a melodic death metal and deathcore outfit from Tarbes in southwestern France, formed in 2024 and blending timeless metal roots with a modern, devastating sonic approach. Their tracks explore dreamlike and introspective lyrical themes set against raw, crushing instrumentation.
Louisville's Gravemouth operate at the intersection of deathcore and death metal proper, speaking in the language of slammed breakdowns and corrosive riffs. Active since 2015, they've refined Kentucky's underground brutality into something reliably ugly.
Devastating Symphonic Deathcore out of Texas.
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Baltimore's Greylotus represent the cutting edge of progressive deathcore, threading technical precision and unusual compositional structures through the genre's crushing heaviness. Since 2022, they've been one of the more ambitious young voices in an increasingly sophisticated scene.
Grimnis is a blackened deathcore project from Bielefeld, Germany, formed in 2025, fusing black metal's atmospheric darkness with deathcore's crushing breakdowns. The project is one of the newest entries in the evolving German blackened deathcore scene.
Groundswell is a deathcore/metalcore band from Nantes, France, formed in 2015. They deliver heavy breakdowns and aggressive vocals from the Loire-Atlantique capital's active heavy music scene.
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