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Featured Album
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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Thrash metal outfit from Milan, formed in 2010. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Czech thrash metal and punk band from Teplice, formed in 2017. They fuse thrash metal's speed and precision with punk's raw, confrontational energy.
Groove and thrash metal band from Belgium, active since 2015. Named after the infamous David Lynch character, they pair groove metal's rhythmic punch with thrash metal's velocity.
Omsk-based thrash metal act active since 2019, 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 Russian filter.
Vriezenveen-based thrash metal act active since 2022, 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 Dutch filter.
Spanish heavy/thrash metal band from Barcelona, formed in 2017. They deliver fierce heavy and thrash metal from Catalonia's vibrant metal scene.
German thrash metal band from Ludwigshafen, formed in 2019. They channel boiling-hot thrash metal fury from the industrial Rhine-Neckar region.
Death/thrash outfit from Lostwithiel, formed in 2019. Their sound channels the raw energy of 1980s thrash through death metal's heavier lens, pairing aggressive vocals with riff-centric compositions.
Finnish thrash metal and crossover band from Tampere, formed in 2021. They deliver lightning-bolt crossover thrash from Finland's industrial heartland.
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