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Ich hatt einen Kameraden (2016)
Featured Black Metal Album
Les Chants de l'Aurore (2024)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Voyage of the Dead Marauder (2024)
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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.
Thrash, black, and death metal band from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, formed in 2021. They channel the darkness of the Balkans through a volatile fusion of three extreme metal subgenres.
Czech thrash metal band from Kojetín, formed in 2012, whose sound has evolved from thrash metal roots toward a nu-metal influenced direction in later material.
German thrash/heavy metal band from Hildesheim, formed in 2013. They blend thrash metal's aggressive edge with traditional heavy metal foundations.
Death/thrash metal band from Puch, Austria, formed in 2019. They merge the precision of thrash with death metal's brutality in a cross-genre assault.
Kraków-based crossover thrash act active since 2020, smashing together thrash metal's riff-driven velocity with punk's stripped-down aggression and DIY ethos. Their short, sharp compositions hit with the impact of a circle pit in a phone booth.
Umeå-based black/thrash/heavy metal act forging a potent brew of first-wave black metal attitude and classic heavy metal riffing. Their sound channels the raw spirit of Venom and early Bathory through a Swedish lens.
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