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Featured Album
Infinite Terror (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Crossover thrash band from Kiel on the Baltic Sea, Germany, formed in 2023. They blend the speed of thrash metal with hardcore punk energy from Germany's northernmost major city.
Crossover thrash act from Kraków, formed in 2018. Cebulandia — a playful Polish name referencing onions — delivers punk-fueled thrash with tongue-in-cheek humor.
Crossover thrash band from Tours, France, active since 2009. They blend thrash metal speed with hardcore punk energy from the Loire Valley.
Crossover thrash band from Birmingham, England, active since 2010. They blend thrash metal with hardcore punk from the birthplace of heavy metal.
Crossover thrash act from Porto, formed in 2023. Cobrafuma delivers punk-fueled thrash aggression from northern Portugal.
Thrash metal and crossover band from Hoogstraten, Belgium, formed in 2016. They blend thrash metal's speed with crossover punk energy, bringing circle-pit-ready aggression from the northernmost tip of the Antwerp province.
Crossover thrash and grindcore act from the Limburg villages of Horst and Lottum, active since 2014. Collision delivers ferocious, high-speed extremity from the Dutch countryside.
Crossover thrash band from Kladno, Czech Republic, formed in 2021. They blend the speed and riffing of thrash metal with the raw energy and attitude of hardcore punk.
Crossover thrash act from Saint Petersburg, active since 2016. Combat Shock fuses punk energy with thrash aggression from Russia's cultural capital.
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