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An Ohio goregrind act operating in the shadows since 2018, Gaki specialize in the kind of extreme, lo-fi grotesquerie that's as much about shock and confrontation as it is about speed.
Galvanizer is a Finnish grinding death metal band from Laitila, active since 2013, featuring Vili Mäkinen, Aleksi Vähämäki, Osmo Laaksoharju, and Nico Niemikko. Their catalog spans seven releases from Ground Above through splits with Morbific to the Promo 2024, delivering relentless, aggressive death-grind.
Gamborimbo is a goregrind trio from Osnabruck, Germany, formed in 2022, whose debut Fiesta Mexicana (2022) packs thirteen tracks of humor-laced goregrind into thirty-six minutes. The three-piece of Stefan (drums), Paddy (guitar), and Chewie (vocals) self-produced the album.
Crushing Death Metal / Grindcore from Houston.
Houston's Ganglion combine death metal's visceral weight with grindcore's frantic tempo and brevity, carving out a space in one of Texas's most active extreme metal cities. Since 2013, they've been a caustic fixture in the Houston underground.
New Jersey's Gangora have been grinding out a caustic death/grind hybrid from East Brunswick since 2020, leaning into the genre's most abrasive tendencies with clear enthusiasm. Short, sharp, and ugly in all the right ways.
Kingsport, Tennessee's Gangrene Womb play goregrind with the kind of gut-level nastiness that the subgenre demands — fast, foul, and completely committed to its own sickness. Formed in 2022, they bring Appalachian grime to one of metal's most extreme sonic corners.
Brand new out of Bozeman, Montana, Garbarge wasted no time in 2025 launching a collision of death metal brutality and grindcore speed that sounds exactly as chaotic as their deliberately mangled name suggests.
Gargleguts is a slam/brutal death metal/goregrind project from the United Kingdom, formed in 2023. Their deliberately grotesque name signals the visceral extremity of their slam and goregrind approach.
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