Michigan City, Indiana's Ghoulish Grin surfaced in 2024 with a black/death metal attack that wears its malice openly — primitive, lurching, and lit from within by the kind of necromantic enthusiasm that makes new death metal worth paying attention to.

Named after the hunger hormone, Tucson's Ghrelin are a 2023-formed death metal and grindcore act whose music has the ravenous quality their name implies — short, punishing outbursts of extreme metal from the Sonoran Desert, always hungry for more damage.

From Sierra Vista, Arizona — a border town in the shadow of the Huachuca Mountains — Ghâshthrak have been channeling death metal, black metal, and grindcore into something raw and geographically extreme since 2019. The desert's harshness runs through every blast beat.

Plano's Giant of the Mountain fuse progressive ambition with the raw extremity of black and death metal, building sprawling, technically demanding compositions that refuse to settle into any single genre. Their work since 2010 rewards patience and repeated listening.

Named after a three-headed kaiju, Merced's Gidorah bring a corresponding multi-pronged assault of death metal brutality, groove-driven rhythm, and metalcore intensity. Their music hits like a creature that attacks from every direction at once.

Portland, Maine's Gift of Tongues fuse the atmospheric density of post-sludge with the raw violence of death metal, constructing music that feels both hauntingly spacious and crushingly heavy. Their approach since 2013 rewards those willing to sit inside the weight.

Chicago's Gigan are among the most disorienting forces in progressive and technical death metal, dismantling conventional song structure in favor of alien, cosmos-eating compositions that feel genuinely unknowable. Since 2008, they've existed in a category largely of their own invention.

California's Gingivitis take the goregrind tradition literally, pairing death metal's brutality with grindcore's hyper-compressed intensity and a gleefully grotesque aesthetic. Since 2022, they've specialized in punishing short-form attacks on the senses.

Lowell's Girthquake hit harder and faster than their name's stoner connotations might suggest, blending death metal's brutality with hardcore's blunt-force immediacy. Their Massachusetts origin gives the music a cold, industrial edge.