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Gadget is a grindcore band from Gävle, Sweden, active since 2008. They deliver relentless blastbeat-driven extremity from this city on the coast of the Gulf of Bothnia.
Gaf is a grindcore and death metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2008, blending grindcore's short-burst aggression with punk energy across releases like Mongofied (2008), Cultivate Disdain (2010), and Gore 'n' Feast (2015). Their sound is fast, filthy, and uncompromising, with an Entombed cover on their latest record nodding to Swedish death metal roots.
Sugar Land, Texas's Gaius hit the ground running in 2020 with a sound that fuses brutal death metal's heaviness with grindcore's velocity — short songs, enormous riffs, and absolutely no mercy.
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.
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