Queensbury, New York's Girthquake channel death and thrash metal into a sound that's simultaneously old-school in its riff vocabulary and aggressive in its forward momentum. One of three unrelated bands sharing this name, they hold their own on the strength of pure speed and spite.

Borrowing their name from a race of astral-plane warriors, Seattle's Githyanki conjure sludge and stoner metal that feels genuinely otherworldly — dense, psychedelic, and displaced from any comfortable reality. Active since 2015, they're a cult act in the Pacific Northwest heavy underground.

Salinas, California's Give Her the Gun bring a melodically aware but uncompromising metalcore sound that's been sharpened through years of work since 2012. They're built for stages and pit floors in equal measure.

Boston's Give Zombies the Vote merge melodic death metal's harmonic sophistication with metalcore's rhythmic aggression and a name that's equal parts political provocation and horror camp. Active since 2012, they make technically ambitious music that never forgets to be fun.

Iowa City's Giving Up have been delivering crossover thrash with genuine punk conviction since 2007, blending the speed and riff-craft of thrash with the urgent, stripped-down energy of hardcore. The name sounds defeatist; the music sounds anything but.

Seattle's Giza build their atmospheric sludge metal with a monolithic patience — slow, layered, and vast in the way their name's ancient stone monuments are vast. Since 2012 they've been constructing music that takes its time to bury you.

Texas-based GK approach progressive metal as solo craftsmanship, sculpting detailed instrumental and compositional work that prioritizes mood and structure over genre convention. A quietly prolific presence in the Lone Star underground since 2017.

Washington state's GLA operate in the most unfiltered and deliberately lo-fi end of raw black metal, stripping the genre down to static, spite, and atmosphere. A 2022 project for those who want their black metal as abrasive as possible.

Baton Rouge's Glacial Coffin fuse black metal's cold hostility with death metal's crushing physicality, arriving at a sound that's both frozen and brutal at once. Since 2019, they've been one of Louisiana's most interesting extreme metal entries.