Fresh out of Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, G.R.U.M. launched in 2023 with a vicious blend of death metal and goregrind. Short, brutal, and utterly remorseless.

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.

Springfield, Missouri's Galactic Massacre have been dealing in no-frills death metal since 2018, channeling outer-space dread into relentless, down-tuned brutality.

Toledo, Ohio's Galactic Mechanics have spent over a decade — since 2011 — constructing progressive death metal that rewards careful listening, mixing technical intricacy with the raw force of extreme metal.

Baltimore's Galactic Skyfather have been refining a hybrid of melodic death and power metal since 2017, wielding soaring melodies with enough aggression to keep things from ever getting comfortable.

Whittier, California's Galicia merge black and death metal into something uncompromising and direct — no atmospheric softening, just raw extremity from a band that formed in 2021.

Hailing from the old frontier town of Deadwood, South Dakota, Gallow Cult deal in a corrosive blend of black and death metal built on punishment and atmosphere. Formed in 2017, their music carries the bleak weight of the American frontier filtered through extreme metal's most uncompromising traditions.

Minneapolis's Gallowglass Scourge traffic in the murky territory between melodic death and doom, piling on dirge-like weight while keeping the riffs precise and cutting. A young act formed in 2022, they've already staked out a sound that feels both crushing and purposeful.

Brutal Melodic Death Metal from College Station.

Drawing their name from ancient Mesopotamian demonology, Denver's Gallu Xul play death metal with an occult gravity that suits the mythology. Founded in 2020, they bring a deliberate menace to Colorado's growing extreme metal community.

Bozeman, Montana's Galvanist are one of the more unusual things growing out of Big Sky Country — an experimental doom/death outfit that treats genre boundaries as suggestions rather than rules. Formed in 2022, they push dissonance and heaviness into genuinely strange configurations.

Cleveland's Galvanized bring old-school death metal ugliness to the Rust Belt, a city with a long tradition of extreme music running through its bones. Active since 2017, they carry that industrial-city grit into every downtuned riff.

Eugene, Oregon's Gamma Knife wield an unlikely but effective fusion of stoner metal's slow churn and death metal's gutting aggression. Active since 2011, they're one of the longer-running acts in the Pacific Northwest's underground and have honed that collision into something genuinely their own.

Providence, Rhode Island's Gamohra splice melodic death metal's harmonic intelligence into a thrash metal framework built for velocity and brutality. Since 2015, they've been one of the more technically ambitious acts working out of the New England underground.

Crushing Death Metal / Grindcore from Houston.