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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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Progressive heavy/thrash/groove metal outfit from Vienna, Austria, active since 2014. They navigate a wide sonic palette, blending the technicality of progressive metal with thrash urgency and groove metal heft.
Manchester thrash and melodic death metal band, active since 2016, with a substantial discography including Ascension, Reascension, and A Line in the Sand. They deliver hard-hitting thrash with melodic death metal precision from the heart of northern England's metal scene.
Thrash metal outfit from Reuver, formed in 2010. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
French metalcore and thrash metal band from Valenciennes in northern France, formed in 2013. They combine metalcore breakdowns with thrash aggression.
Death/thrash outfit from Naples, formed in 2015. Their sound channels the raw energy of 1980s thrash through death metal's heavier lens, pairing aggressive vocals with riff-centric compositions.
Finnish melodic thrash metal band from Salo, formed in 2015. They push thrash metal beyond the verge with melodic precision.
Thrash metal outfit from Čakovec, formed in 2014. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
French thrash/death metal band from Boulogne-sur-Mer, active since 2005. They deliver two decades of thrash-death from the Channel coast of northern France.
Since 2024, this Irish thrash metal act has delivered high-velocity riff assaults from Donegal. Their sound channels the raw energy of the genre's golden era through tight musicianship.
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