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.

Houston's Ganglion combine death metal's visceral weight with grindcore's frantic tempo and brevity, carving out a space in one of Texas's most active extreme metal cities. Since 2013, they've been a caustic fixture in the Houston underground.

New Jersey's Gangora have been grinding out a caustic death/grind hybrid from East Brunswick since 2020, leaning into the genre's most abrasive tendencies with clear enthusiasm. Short, sharp, and ugly in all the right ways.

Los Angeles brutal death metallers Gangrenous Consumption operate at the outer limits of heaviness, building their sound on relentless low-end punishment and technical brutality since 2018. They're part of a strong Southern California brutal death scene with no shortage of extremity.