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Divine (2024)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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From Sierra Vista, Arizona — a border town in the shadow of the Huachuca Mountains — Ghâshthrak have been channeling death metal, black metal, and grindcore into something raw and geographically extreme since 2019. The desert's harshness runs through every blast beat.
Gimli, Son of Gloin is a death metal/grindcore band from Southampton, formed in 2019. Named after Tolkien's dwarven warrior, they bring literary irreverence to their grinding death metal from the Hampshire coast.
Ginger Brain Man is a solo extreme metal project from Caen, France, formed in 2011, blending death metal, grindcore, black metal, noise, and psychedelic rock into a dark, avant-garde hybrid. The eleven-track debut Terreurs Nocturnes delivers surreal, genre-defying extreme metal across forty-two minutes.
California's Gingivitis take the goregrind tradition literally, pairing death metal's brutality with grindcore's hyper-compressed intensity and a gleefully grotesque aesthetic. Since 2022, they've specialized in punishing short-form attacks on the senses.
Grindcore and crust act from Eskisehir formed in 2014, fusing blasting extremity with D-beat punk aggression. Their rapid-fire sonic barrages channel the confrontational energy central to both traditions.
Glaucoma is a death metal and grindcore band from Angoulême, France, formed in 2021, delivering fast, aggressive extreme metal from the Charente department of western France. Their sound combines grindcore's velocity with death metal's crushing weight.
Glavio is a solo grindcore and goregrind project from northern France, created in 2007 by Antoine Dourlent, who also plays guitar in L.A.R.D.O.N. The prolific project has released eight albums over a decade, including the retrospective 10 Years of Putrid (2017) and numerous splits.
Glib is a death metal, grindcore, and thrash metal band from Ruma, Serbia, active since 2019. They deliver a ferocious blend of extreme metal subgenres from the Vojvodina region.
Glimpse into Genocide is a one-man deathgrind and grindcore project from Goudargues, France, formed in 2019, delivering ferocious solo extreme metal. Releases including This Is a Threat and Scum Colony channel relentless grindcore aggression through a solo creative vision.
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