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Featured Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Black Metal Album
Death Doom Punks (2026)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Tribute to Erik Lindmark (Deeds of Flesh) (2020)
05/11 @ Three Links Deep Ellum, Dallas
Featured Power Metal Album
Curse of the Crystal Coconut (2020)
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Spanish thrash metal band from Tui in Galicia, active since 2009. They deliver fast, explosive thrash metal from the Portuguese-Spanish border town.
Spanish heavy/thrash metal band from Pola de Lena in Asturias, formed in 2012. They blast open heavy and thrash metal from the mountainous heart of northern Spain.
Finnish thrash metal band from Kotka, formed in 2012. They play dust-raising thrash metal from the southeastern Finnish coast.
Since 2016, this Norwegian thrash metal act has delivered high-velocity riff assaults from Kongsberg. Their sound channels the raw energy of the genre's golden era through tight musicianship.
Kruševac-based thrash metal act active since 2025, 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 Serbian filter.
Thrash metal outfit from Como, formed in 2005. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Death/thrash outfit from Verona, formed in 2020. Their sound channels the raw energy of 1980s thrash through death metal's heavier lens, pairing aggressive vocals with riff-centric compositions.
French thrash/death metal band from Lille, formed in 2025. They bring blazing death-thrash to northern France.
Khabarovsk-based death/thrash metal act active since 2023, fusing death metal's guttural intensity with thrash's riff-driven velocity and rhythmic precision. Their high-energy approach delivers the heaviness of death metal married to thrash's urgent momentum.
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