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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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German thrash metal band from Dortmund, formed in 2020. They forge modern thrash metal from the Ruhr Valley's deep metal tradition.
Death/thrash outfit from Corby, formed in 2013. Their sound channels the raw energy of 1980s thrash through death metal's heavier lens, pairing aggressive vocals with riff-centric compositions.
Thrash metal outfit from Omsk, formed in 2021. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Thrash metal outfit from Lodi, formed in 2019. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
German band from Kiel, formed in 2013, whose sound evolved from thrash metal and crossover toward hardcore punk. Their stylistic shift reflects a sharpening of punk attitude over metal complexity.
Finnish black/thrash metal and punk band from Oulu, formed in 2015. They deliver savage, bone-hunting black/thrash with punk energy from northern Finland.
Danish thrash metal and punk band from Silkeborg, formed in 2020. They fuse thrash metal's speed with punk's raw aggression.
Finnish thrash/melodic death metal band from Porvoo, formed in 2025. They deliver cutting thrash-melodeath from the historic coastal town east of Helsinki.
French thrash metal band from Narbonne in Languedoc, formed in 2014. They deliver bone-scraping thrash metal from the Mediterranean coast of southern France.
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