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General Surgery is a death metal and goregrind band from Stockholm, Sweden, active since 2011 and dealing in the most extreme forms of grinding death metal from the Swedish capital. The project channels the legacy of Swedish extreme metal.
Generation Steel is a German heavy metal band from Wetzlar, formed in 2021, self-described as "German Heavy Metal powerhouses" with a catalog including The Eagle Will Rise, Lionheart, Steelers, and Limitless. The band maintains an active live schedule across Germany and is working toward a new album in 2026.
Generator are a heavy metal band from Stockerau in Lower Austria, currently active and operating as an independent act in the Austrian metal underground. Little of their recorded output has circulated widely, placing them firmly in the self-released, grassroots tradition of Austrian regional heavy metal.
Odesa doom metal act launched in 2024 with a self-aware name that embraces the genre's tropes with tongue-in-cheek humor. Their slow-burning heaviness channels doom metal's crushing weight from Ukraine's Black Sea port city.
Saint Petersburg black metal project formed in 2014, channeling extreme darkness from Russia's cultural capital. Their output draws from the ferocity and atmosphere that defines the genre's most uncompromising expressions.
Genesis Was Fake is a one-man crossover thrash project from Colmar, France, created by Kreaphil in 2020, addressing social themes across twelve tracks on the debut No Humans No Mistakes. The album blends crossover thrash with melodic elements across forty-five minutes of socially conscious extreme metal.
Genetic Disorder is a death/thrash metal band from Dusseldorf, Germany, formed in 2016, delivering aggressive, riff-driven extreme metal from the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area. The band combines death metal's brutality with thrash metal's speed and precision.
Genetic Mutation is a thrash metal/crossover band from Moray in northeast Scotland, formed in 2021. They bring crossover thrash energy to the Scottish Highlands.
Genetik Blueprint is a thrash metal band from Falkirk in central Scotland, formed in 2021. They deliver fast-paced thrash from the industrial town between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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