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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Featured Grindcore Album
Mentally Murdered (2019)
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Upcast is a thrash/groove metal band from Moscow, Russia, delivering riff-driven metal with an aggressive edge since 2023. The project channels heavy, groove-laden thrash from the Russian capital.
Groove metal and crossover band from Macclesfield in Cheshire, England, active since 2017. Their sound combines groove metal's rhythmic heaviness with crossover's punk-influenced urgency.
Melodic thrash and groove metal band from the small Austrian town of Micheldorf, delivering riff-driven aggression tempered with melodic sensibility since 2013. Their sound bridges the gap between thrash metal's speed and groove metal's heavyweight rhythmic punch.
Norrkoping's Varices brings together death metal's crushing weight, groove metal's rhythmic punch, and melodic death metal's soaring harmonies into a versatile hybrid. Their multi-faceted approach keeps compositions dynamic and unpredictable.
Variscythe is a melodic death/groove metal band from The Hague, Netherlands, formed in 2015. They blend melodic death metal's harmonies with groove metal's rhythmic heaviness.
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Veluspa is a groove/thrash metal band from Nienburg, Germany, formed in 2014. They combine groove metal's rhythmic weight with thrash metal's speed and precision.
Vendetta Inc. is a groove metal band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2014. They deliver crushing, rhythmically driven groove metal from the Hungarian capital.
Venganza is a groove metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2017. They deliver crushing, rhythmically driven groove metal from the Spanish capital.
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