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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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Metalcore and thrash metal band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2013. They merge the breakdowns and aggression of metalcore with the speed and riff-driven intensity of thrash.
Groove-thrash act from Zoetermeer, South Holland, formed in 2026. Callous Intent represents the newest wave of Dutch thrash metal.
Groove-thrash metal band from Barnsley, England, formed in 2017. They combine heavy grooves with thrash speed from the South Yorkshire coalfields.
Death-thrash act from Szczecin in northwestern Poland, formed in 2025. Calyptra brings fresh extreme metal energy to the Pomeranian scene.
Death-thrash metal band from the Grand Est region, France, formed in 2019. They merge death metal aggression with thrash speed from eastern France.
Death metal, thrash, and metalcore act from Virneburg, Germany, formed in 2019. They channel a genre-crossing assault from the rural Eifel region of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Black-thrash metal band from France, emerging in 2025. They fuse black metal darkness with thrash metal velocity.
Death-grind-thrash act from Catania, Sicily, formed in 2019. Camera Obscura Two delivers a chaotic blend of extreme subgenres from the shadow of Mount Etna.
Thrash metal band from Munich, Germany, formed in 2015. They deliver fast, aggressive thrash with a relentless riffing attack from the Bavarian capital.
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