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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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Death/thrash outfit from Piława Górna, 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.
Toscolano-Maderno (Brescia)-based thrash metal act active since 2021, 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 Italian filter.
Thrash metal outfit from Athens, formed in 2021. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
German thrash metal band from Baden-Baden, formed in 2014. They deliver fast, aggressive thrash metal from the Black Forest spa town.
Thessaloniki-based death/thrash metal act active since 2013, 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.
German thrash metal band from North Rhine-Westphalia, formed in 2017. They play straightforward, flesh-ripping thrash metal.
German death/thrash metal band from Fulda, active since 2010. They combine death and thrash metal's brutal energies from the Hessian city at the crossroads of Germany.
French death/thrash metal band from Toulon on the Mediterranean, formed in 2018. They deliver ritualistic death-thrash from the Provençal naval port.
German thrash/death/black metal band from Leipzig, formed in 2010. They draw from three extreme metal traditions for a wide-ranging, vengeance-fueled assault.
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