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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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Finnish death/thrash metal and crossover band from Helsinki, formed in 2015. They serve spoonful after spoonful of death-thrash crossover from the capital.
Finnish thrash metal band from Kuopio, formed in 2017. They deliver brain-thrashing metal from the eastern Finnish lake country.
Death/thrash metal band from Saint-Avold in the Moselle department of northeastern France, active since 2016. Their album Reasons to Go Insane pairs melodic sensibilities with aggressive thrash instrumentation and dark lyrical themes.
Since 2020, this Dutch thrash metal act has delivered high-velocity riff assaults from Kaatsheuvel. Their sound channels the raw energy of the genre's golden era through tight musicianship.
German death/thrash/doom metal band from Krölpa in Thuringia, formed in 2016. They blend three heavy genres into a savage, multifaceted assault.
's-Hertogenbosch-based thrash/groove metal act active since 2024, anchoring their riff-driven assault in mid-tempo grooves that demand involuntary headbanging. Their compositions balance thrash metal's speed with the crushing rhythmic weight of groove metal.
Spanish thrash metal and metalcore band from Tarragona, formed in 2022. They break the silence with aggressive thrash-infused metalcore from Catalonia.
German death/thrash metal and grindcore band from Castrop-Rauxel in the Ruhr Valley, formed in 2014. They channel a feral blend of death-thrash and grindcore extremity.
German thrash metal band from Münster, formed in 2015. They deliver fast, tongue-in-cheek thrash metal from the Westphalian university city.
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