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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.
Garlic Grinder is a French grindcore duo consisting of vocalist T. and guitarist-programmer L., formed in 2020, delivering '1312% DIY' deathgrind and d-beat across politically charged short-burst tracks. Their 2020 demo packs six tracks into approximately six minutes, recorded between Montpellier and Beaumont-sur-Oise.
Named for the hound that guards the gates of Hel in Norse mythology, Milford, Connecticut's Garm pursues a raw and cold black metal sound with appropriately grim intent. Active since 2021, the project carries its mythological namesake seriously.
Brutal Death Metal / Hardcore / Grindcore from Fort Worth.
A brand-new goregrind project from Connecticut, Gastric Fasciitis arrived in 2025 with the kind of clinical-horror fixation and blasting ferocity the genre demands. Short, violent, and deeply unpleasant in the best possible way.
Denver's Gastric Phantasm carve up a nasty intersection of goregrind and death metal, keeping things visceral and churning since their 2021 formation. Equal parts intestinal and infernal.
Gastric Ulcer emerged from Feldkirch in 2005 and blend death metal, thrash, and grindcore into short, socially cutting songs that target trends and cultural absurdities in everyday life. Their discography ranges from the 2006 demo Ants All Over My Body through mini-CDs and full-lengths including Redundant and Phall if You but Will, Rise You Must.
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