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Guttural is a death metal and goregrind act from Bissegem, Belgium, active since 2012, operating as Guttural Slug with a catalog that includes Intercranial Purgatory, Megalodon, Atrocities, and Plague of Filth. The five-piece band has maintained an active touring presence including UK dates.
Guttural Decay is a slam and brutal death metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2009 and delivering over fifteen years of gut-churning brutality. The project is one of the more established acts in Russian slam death metal.
Guttural Defecation is a slam/brutal death metal band from Naples, formed in 2025. They deliver the guttural extremity of slam death metal from the Campanian capital.
Guttural Disgorge is a slam/brutal death metal act from Aarhus, Denmark, formed in 2023, dealing in the most punishing, guttural end of the death metal spectrum. The project channels maximum brutality through slam riffs and inhuman vocals.
Guttural Slug is a slam/brutal death metal and deathcore band from the Lyngby/Copenhagen area, Denmark, formed in 2012, blending slam death metal's crushing breakdowns with deathcore elements. The five-piece band has maintained over a decade of brutal, bone-crushing output.
Gutwrench is a death metal band from Bergen and Zaandam in North Holland, Netherlands, active since 2011 and delivering gut-wrenching death metal from the Amsterdam metropolitan area. Over a decade of activity reflects a steadfast commitment to the genre.
Guul is a black metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2021 and forging dark extremity from the Russian capital. The project channels raw, atmospheric black metal aggression.
Founded in 2020 in Graz, Guyođ pursue a blackened doom/death metal sound drawing its imagery from ocean depths, Baudelaire's poetry, and Melville's prose, debuting with the 2023 album Heart of Thy Abyss on Grazil Records before releasing the structurally experimental EP Death Throes of a Drowning God in January 2026. Their 2022 split Alluvial Soil with LEHM introduced the project to the underground, and they have steadily built a following in the doom-death community.
Gudvangir is a funeral doom metal project from Norway, formed in 2024. Named after the Icelandic word for sacred fields, they deliver glacial funeral doom from the Scandinavian underground.
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