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Grindstone is a death metal, grindcore, and hardcore band from Ravensburg in Upper Swabia, Germany, formed in 2022, delivering a three-way collision of extreme styles. The band channels furious intensity from the south German countryside.
Grindustry is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Doetinchem, Netherlands, active since 2019 and merging industrial-strength brutality with grinding velocity. The project's name reflects its mechanized approach to extreme metal.
Grindzilla is a goregrind and grindcore act from Gomel, Belarus, formed in 2015, whose releases include the 2015 demo and the 2018 EP Toshinquandon. Their tracks are short, chaotic bursts of grinding metal, exemplified by the one-minute single King Kong Kamikaze.
Griszmo are a Vienna-based multi-vocal grindcore and crust punk outfit whose sound drags death metal, thrash, and hardcore punk into a blunt, politically confrontational blend. Their 2019 album Vehement documents this aggressive collision of styles with tracks like Glastroika.
Formed in Lille, France in 1998, Gronibard play a gleefully offensive strain of goregrind delivered with studied irreverence, playing Maryland Death Fest in 2005 and touring Europe extensively in their early years. Their self-titled debut LP, released on Bones Brigade Records in 2001, established the band's taste for maximum volume and minimum propriety, followed by We Are French Fukk You before a fourteen-year recording gap ended with Regarde Les Hommes Sucer in 2022. The band operates under a rotating cast of deliberately cartoonish pseudonyms.
Grotesque Impalement is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Karlsruhe, Germany, formed in 2018, dealing in the most extreme end of the Baden death metal scene. The band delivers relentless, gory brutality from the gateway to the Black Forest.
Grotesquerie is an international death metal and goregrind trio split between Lausanne, Switzerland and Brisbane, Australia, formed in 2022. Their debut Composted Beyond Recognition (2022) was followed by the 2025 EP Uninhabited Plane, which was recorded at DTR Studio in Switzerland and mastered at Earhammer Studio in Oakland.
Gruesome Stuff Relish is a death metal and goregrind band from Mieres in Asturias, Spain, active since 2002, blending extreme metal with B-movie horror imagery across releases like Teenage Giallo Grind (2002) and Horror Rises From The Tomb (2008). Their sound has been described as 'groovin' cannibalistic bloodthirst,' pairing crushing riffs with schlocky horror film aesthetics.
Gruiiiik is a Parisian goregrind project active since 2020, embracing a self-described "no lyrics, no talent" ethos of raw, unpolished extremity. Their releases include Demo 2020 and Ça Parle de Ta Mère!, delivering irreverent grind chaos.
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