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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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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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Guts of Despoty is a death metal band from Izhevsk, Russia, formed in 2022 and delivering crushing death metal from the Udmurt Republic. The project channels unrelenting extremity from the Urals.
Gutsfuck is a crossover thrash band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2014, aiming to bring back the pure speed of 1980s-style crossover to the scene. Their debut EP Learn or Die packs eight tracks into thirteen minutes of thrash-punk fury, recorded at Jacks on the Rocks in Madrid.
Gutshot is a death/thrash metal band from Olsztyn, Poland, active since 2020 and merging death metal's crushing weight with thrash's velocity from the Warmian-Masurian lake district. The project delivers punishing crossover aggression.
Pennsylvania's Gutshovel emerged from McKean County in 2024 with a death metal approach that favors raw aggression over technical showmanship — blunt, brutal, and grounded in the genre's most primal impulses. The name tells you everything about their aesthetic priorities.
Gutslamed is a brutal death metal band from Szczecin, Poland, active since 2014 and dealing in the most extreme forms of death metal from this northwestern port city. The project channels guttural brutality with unrelenting intensity.
Gutslasher is a goregrind band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2015 and dealing in the most extreme and grotesque corners of grinding metal. The project delivers visceral sonic violence from the Russian capital.
Stoner/sludge metal from Texas.
Rock Spring, Georgia's Gutsnagged specialize in the brutal death metal tradition — inhuman drumming, guttural vocals, and down-tuned guitars deployed with clinical precision and zero mercy. Since 2018 they've been a reliable source of purely punishing extremity from the Deep South.
Gutspawn is a death metal band from Belfast, formed in 2016. They deliver visceral death metal from the Northern Irish capital.
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