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Featured Album
The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Abridged Dimensions (2025)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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German power/thrash/heavy metal band from Brunswick, formed in 2024. They draw from three classic metal traditions for a versatile, hard-hitting sound.
Thrash metal outfit from Tromsø, formed in 2016. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Rostov-on-Don-based crossover thrash act active since 2018, smashing together thrash metal's riff-driven velocity with punk's stripped-down aggression and DIY ethos. Their short, sharp compositions hit with the impact of a circle pit in a phone booth.
Thrash metal outfit from Southampton, formed in 2024. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Thrash and groove metal band from Dagmersellen, Switzerland, active since 2018. They combine thrash metal's speed with groove metal's head-nodding rhythms.
German thrash metal band formed in 2025. They deliver fast, uncompromising thrash metal.
Spanish heavy/thrash metal band from Bilbao, formed in 2018. They deliver hellfire heavy and thrash metal from the Basque industrial heartland.
Livorno-based thrash/stoner metal act active since 2013, fusing thrash metal's riff-driven aggression with stoner metal's fuzz-drenched groove. Their unconventional hybrid delivers both headbanging intensity and heavy, laid-back swagger.
German thrash metal band from the Hermeskeil-Trier area, formed in 2016. They deliver scorching thrash metal from the Hunsrück highlands.
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