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Featured Album
Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Featured Sludge Metal Album
De Doorn (2021)
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Death-thrash metal band from Hvidbjerg in western Jutland, Denmark, active since 2012. They deliver aggressive death-thrash from rural Denmark.
Power-thrash metal band from Friedberg, Germany, active since 2013. They combine the melodic energy of power metal with the aggressive speed of thrash.
Blackened death-thrash act from Šurany in the Nitra region, formed in 2022. Circular Saw delivers cutting extreme metal from western Slovakia.
Black-death-thrash metal band from Odense, Denmark, formed in 2024. They blend three extreme metal genres into a fierce, genre-crossing assault.
Thrash metal band from Wrocław, formed in 2025. Cirograph brings fresh thrash aggression to the Lower Silesian scene.
Thrash metal band from Montana, Bulgaria, active since 2013. They deliver fierce thrash metal from northwestern Bulgaria, a region better known for agriculture than extreme music.
Thrash metal band from Tarbes in the French Pyrenees, formed in 2014. They deliver aggressive thrash from the mountain foothills.
Death-thrash act from Smolensk, western Russia, active since 2014. Cist delivers aggressive extreme metal from the historic border city.
Thrash metal band from Łódź, one of Poland's longer-running thrash acts with roots stretching back to 1997. Citizen Dick has spent nearly three decades delivering aggressive thrash from central Poland.
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