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.

An Ohio goregrind act operating in the shadows since 2018, Gaki specialize in the kind of extreme, lo-fi grotesquerie that's as much about shock and confrontation as it is about speed.

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.

Kingsport, Tennessee's Gangrene Womb play goregrind with the kind of gut-level nastiness that the subgenre demands — fast, foul, and completely committed to its own sickness. Formed in 2022, they bring Appalachian grime to one of metal's most extreme sonic corners.

Brand new out of Bozeman, Montana, Garbarge wasted no time in 2025 launching a collision of death metal brutality and grindcore speed that sounds exactly as chaotic as their deliberately mangled name suggests.

Named for the hound that guards the gates of Hel in Norse mythology, Milford, Connecticut's Garm pursues a raw and cold black metal sound with appropriately grim intent. Active since 2021, the project carries its mythological namesake seriously.

Brutal Death Metal / Hardcore / Grindcore from Fort Worth.

A brand-new goregrind project from Connecticut, Gastric Fasciitis arrived in 2025 with the kind of clinical-horror fixation and blasting ferocity the genre demands. Short, violent, and deeply unpleasant in the best possible way.

Denver's Gastric Phantasm carve up a nasty intersection of goregrind and death metal, keeping things visceral and churning since their 2021 formation. Equal parts intestinal and infernal.

Chicago's Gastropod blend grindcore's furious brevity with death metal's crushing low-end, building a sound that's both abrasive and rhythmically punishing. Formed in 2023, they're a welcome new entry into the city's brutal underground.

Springfield, Missouri's Gauntlet are a genuinely difficult band to pin down — their sound pulls from sludge, powerviolence, hardcore, and power metal simultaneously, creating something chaotic and genre-agnostic. Formed in 2022, they're proof that genre labels sometimes just get in the way.

San Diego's Genestealer lift their name from Warhammer 40,000 lore and channel that pulpy, sci-fi menace into short, violent grindcore songs since 2019. Fast, brutal, and over before you can process what happened.

Crushing Grindcore / Death Metal out of Texas.