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Goropsy is a death metal/grindcore band from Glasgow, formed in 2016. They deliver grinding death metal from Scotland's largest city.
Goryhole is a brutal death metal and goregrind act from Bochum, Germany, formed in 2024, channeling graphic, over-the-top extreme metal from the Ruhr Valley. The project deals in the most visceral end of the goregrind spectrum.
Gorzung is a death metal/grindcore four-piece from Fribourg, Switzerland, formed in 2023, whose debut Paraphrenia (2023) delivers sixteen tracks of aggressive extreme metal recorded at Overlook Studio in Gavle, Sweden. The band features dual guitarists alongside bass and drums driving their relentless deathgrind assault.
La Cienega, New Mexico's Gouch arrived in 2024 combining grindcore's velocity with deathcore's breakdown-driven brutality — short, violent, and coming from one of the more unexpected corners of the American extreme metal map.
Gouger is a death metal/grindcore band from Glasgow, formed in 2021. They deliver violent, grinding extremity from Scotland's central belt.
Gout is a death metal/goregrind band from London, formed in 2022. They channel visceral extremity from the London underground.
Goya is a solo death metal and grindcore project based in Avellaneda, Argentina, operating across genres including slam and brutal death. The project released the demo "La gran mentira" on December 17, 2022, a six-track release composed, recorded, and mastered between April and December of that year, with production handled under the handle @xnchrst. The concise, under-eight-minute runtime and numerically titled tracks reflect a stripped-down, high-intensity approach to the death-grind format.
Grafnár is a blackened grindcore and metalcore band from Reykjavík, Iceland, active since 2019 and blending blackened aggression with the chaotic velocity of grindcore and metalcore breakdowns. The project operates at the extreme fringes of Iceland's metal scene.
Gran Toucher is a death metal/grindcore band from Exeter in Devon, active since 2011. They deliver grinding extremity from the southwest English cathedral city.
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