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From the small Ohio town of Shadyside, Godslayer have been delivering no-frills death metal since 2014 — straightforward in its brutality, uninterested in trend-chasing, and uncompromising in execution.
A Washington State act formed in 2023, Goetia take their name from a grimoire of summoned demons and their sound from the punishing school of death metal — still new enough to be hungry, already dark enough to mean it.
Nashville's Gog and Magog invoke apocalyptic imagery through a hybrid of death metal and deathcore — thunderous breakdowns sitting alongside more traditional death metal savagery since 2021. Biblical in name and scope.
Dynamic Progressive Metal from Frisco.
Blasphemous Black Metal from Spring/Houston.
A fresh 2024 project trading in blackened death metal, Gore Filled Cemetery lean into grim imagery with a sound that matches — blurred riffs, icy atmosphere, and the kind of low-budget menace that suits the genre best.
Los Angeles's Goreatorium drag goregrind's grotesque obsessions through death metal's structural framework since 2016 — blastbeats, guttural excess, and a sense of humor about the whole disgusting enterprise.
Punishing Brutal Death Metal from San Antonio.
Tallahassee's GoreFetish arrived in 2023 fully committed to death metal's most visceral impulses — punishing riffs, morbid themes, and the sort of unfiltered aggression that Florida's extreme scene has been producing for decades.
Los Angeles's Goreified have been practicing old-school death metal with deliberate grime since 2018, reaching back past the genre's glossy later years to something rawer and more menacing. Exactly as ugly as the name suggests.
Ruthless Brutal Death Metal / Goregrind from Bloomington, Illinois (early, later); Texas (mid); Southern California (mid).
From the small Illinois town of Bement, Goretesque approach death metal with the rural underground's stripped-back intensity since 2021 — no frills, no shortcuts, just straight-ahead brutality from somewhere you'd never expect it.
Connecticut's Gorge have been filling the space between doom and sludge with dense, slow-rolling heaviness since 2015 — Simsbury's contribution to a tradition of New England bands that take the heavy in heavy metal seriously.
Sonoma, California's Gorge blend death metal's mordant aggression with doom's unhurried pace since 2015, cultivating an atmosphere of rot and weight amid the wine country's rolling hills. The contrast feels entirely intentional.
Henderson, Texas's Gorifice have been keeping East Texas's extreme metal underground alive since 2014 — death metal played with regional directness, no polish, and a commitment to the genre's most primitive pleasures.
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