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.

Boston's Gas Attack has been delivering volatile crossover thrash since 2012, tapping the city's deep punk and hardcore roots and fusing them with metal's aggression. Fast, blunt, and built to start pits.

Out of Arlington Heights, Illinois, Gas Mask Catalogue melds melodic death metal's harmonic drive with metalcore's cathartic dynamics, carving out a sound that's been evolving since 2009. The Chicago suburbs have produced a band with broader stylistic ambition than their geography might suggest.

New Castle, Pennsylvania thrash act Gaschamber has been grinding through the genre with blue-collar determination since 2013, rooted in the classic tradition of riff-heavy, mid-tempo aggression. Pennsylvania's industrial corridor produced a fittingly grim project.

Eugene, Oregon's Gash hits with the blunt force of meat-and-potatoes death metal — straightforward, ugly, and deliberate. Formed in 2018, they operate in Oregon's growing extreme metal underground with no interest in softening anything.

Freshly formed in 2025 out of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Gash Mallet arrived swinging with slam and brutal death metal at its most blunt and physical. The project joins a growing wave of Pacific Northwest bands pushing the genre's most extreme limits.

Fort Collins, Colorado's GasHead has been fusing the mathematical rigor of progressive metal with thrash's forward momentum since 2003, carving a distinctive niche in Colorado's heavy underground. The result is technical but still volatile, smart but unwilling to sit still.