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Featured Album
Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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German thrash metal band from Worms, formed in 2021. They deliver brain-crushing thrash metal from the ancient Rhineland city.
German thrash metal band from Baden-Württemberg, formed in 2010. They channel derailing thrash metal fury with over a decade of experience.
Spanish thrash metal band from Palencia, active since 1993. With over three decades of thrash, they are one of the Castilian heartland's most seasoned metal acts.
German thrash/death metal band from the Stromberg-Bingen area in Rhineland-Palatinate, formed in 2018. They combine thrash and death metal's aggressive energies.
Groove and thrash metal band from Bulgaria, formed in 2025. A brand-new act delivering crushing grooves and thrash metal velocity.
German thrash/groove metal band from Seesen in Lower Saxony, formed in 2025. They bring fresh thrash-groove energy to the Harz region.
German death/thrash metal band from Cottbus in Brandenburg, formed in 2015. They deliver death-thrash extremity from the Lusatian lowlands.
Ancona-based thrash metal act active since 2015, 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 England, formed in 2015. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
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