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The Blind Leading The Blind (2018)
Featured Grindcore Album
Scum (2017)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes (Luxus) (2018)
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Finnish death/thrash metal and grindcore band from Tampere, active since 2008. With nearly two decades of friendship-forged extremity, they deliver death-grind with tongue-in-cheek camaraderie.
Thrash metal outfit from Säffle, formed in 2020. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Finnish black/thrash metal band from Lappeenranta, formed in 2016. They deliver bestial black/thrash from the southeastern Finnish border.
German black/thrash metal band from Flensburg, formed in 2016. They fuse black metal's darkness with thrash metal's speed from Germany's northernmost city on the Danish border.
French thrash/death metal band from Poitiers, formed in 2016. They deliver bestial thrash-death from the historic Aquitaine city.
Uddevalla-based thrash metal act active since 2018, delivering riff-driven aggression rooted in the genre's foundational principles of speed, precision, and relentless energy. Their material channels the spirit of 1980s thrash through a Swedish filter.
Thrash metal outfit from Moscow (early); Prague, formed in 2023. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
French thrash metal band from the Dreux-Saint-Éliph area, formed in 2015. They channel bestial thrash metal from the Eure-et-Loir countryside.
Death/thrash outfit from Fano (Pesaro and Urbino), formed in 2011. Their sound channels the raw energy of 1980s thrash through death metal's heavier lens, pairing aggressive vocals with riff-centric compositions.
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