Out of New Smyrna Beach, Florida, this Garroted zeroes in on the volatile meeting point of death and thrash metal, keeping the music volatile and kinetic. Formed in 2013, they represent the Sunshine State's durable tradition of no-nonsense extremity.

San Diego's Garth Algar dishes out stoner-laced sludge metal with the easygoing swagger and slow-rolling heaviness that the Southern California coast seems to generate naturally. Active since 2012, the band's party-ready name belies how genuinely crushing the music gets.

Boise, Idaho's Garthim blends black metal's ferocity with dungeon synth's otherworldly ambience, creating music that is simultaneously aggressive and immersive. Active since 2005, the project draws from a fantasy-tinged sonic universe.

Charlottesville, Virginia's Garthim has been pursuing raw and atmospheric black metal since 2005, operating quietly in the mid-Atlantic underground with a sound defined by cold intensity. Despite sharing a name with the Boise project, the two exist independently.

Rising from the high plains of Amarillo, Texas, Garthok has been dealing in bone-dry stoner and doom metal since 2012 — a fitting sound for the flat, punishing landscape of the Texas panhandle. Slow, hazy, and heavy.

Pittsfield, Massachusetts brutal death metal act Gartlock has been pummeling western New England since 2019 with a dense and relentless approach to the genre's most extreme end. Uncompromising in both tempo and heaviness.

Brutal Death Metal / Hardcore / Grindcore from Fort Worth.

Baltimore's technical death metal crew Garuda shares its mythological name with the Fort Worth project but delivers a distinctly different beast — intricate, precise, and rooted in technical death metal's most demanding traditions. Formed in 2018 in one of the East Coast's most fertile extreme metal scenes.

Fort Wayne, Indiana's Gary Lenaire is a solo heavy metal and hard rock project launched in 2020, channeling a classic sensibility with a personal and direct approach. The project sits comfortably in the traditional end of the spectrum, where hooks and power still carry the weight.