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Get Rich or Die Asshole is a solo death metal and grindcore project from Paris, France, created by Guillaume Boéréma in 2014, who handles vocals, guitar, composition, and drum programming. Releases including the self-titled album (2015) and Overdrive (2018) were entirely produced and mixed by Boéréma at Parabellum Art Studio.
GGG Excrementor is a deathgrind and powerviolence outfit from Magé, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, founded by ex-members of Gore and Affront — guitarist and vocalist Wilson Sacer, bassist Thiago Perdurabo, and drummer Tete Bloodgore. The band released their debut EP "Banquete Aos Vermes" in April 2025, a four-track recording mixed and mastered by Thiago Perdurabo at Polyversum Records.
Ghjttatura is a grindcore/death metal band from Sassari in Sardinia, active since 2008. Their name — a Sardinian variant of 'jettatura' (the evil eye) — roots their grinding extremity in island superstition.
Ghor is a death metal and grindcore band from Noisy-le-Sec in the Paris suburbs, formed in 2023, delivering visceral, blast-driven extreme metal. Their sound channels the aggressive intensity of grindcore through a death metal framework.
Ghostname is a death metal and grindcore act from Soro, Denmark, formed in 2012, combining death metal's heaviness with grindcore's frantic pace from the Danish countryside. The band has maintained over a decade of extreme metal output.
Covington, Kentucky's Ghostslug have been dragging death metal and grindcore through the Ohio River valley since 2013 — fast, filthy, and economically violent, with the genre's characteristic contempt for anything leisurely or refined.
Oakland's masked and anonymous Ghoul have been delivering horror-obsessed death/thrash and grindcore since 2000 under elaborate fictional personas, building one of the most cult-beloved bodies of work in Bay Area metal — grotesque, theatrical, and genuinely dangerous.
Ghoulgash is a death metal/grindcore and electronic band from England, formed in 2021. They blend the violence of grindcore with electronic elements, creating an unusual hybrid from the English underground.
Named after the hunger hormone, Tucson's Ghrelin are a 2023-formed death metal and grindcore act whose music has the ravenous quality their name implies — short, punishing outbursts of extreme metal from the Sonoran Desert, always hungry for more damage.
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