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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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Thrash and death metal band from Bruges, Belgium. Their releases including 'Inner Aggression' EP and demo 'Trails Of Destruction' showcase raw, aggressive extreme metal with an emphasis on destructive energy.
Crossover thrash act from Porto, formed in 2023. Cobrafuma delivers punk-fueled thrash aggression from northern Portugal.
Speed-thrash band from Ferrara, formed in 2019. Cocaine Cowboys plays wild, high-velocity thrash and speed metal with outlaw attitude from Emilia-Romagna.
Groove, heavy, and thrash metal band from the Pegnitz/Bayreuth area of Upper Franconia, Germany, active since 2013. They blend heavy grooves with thrash aggression and classic heavy metal hooks.
Heavy thrash band from Parižlje in central Slovenia, formed in 2022. Codogast delivers aggressive metal from rural Slovenia.
Black-thrash metal band from Cornwall, England, emerging in 2025. They fuse black metal darkness with thrash velocity from the English West Country.
Groove-thrash metal band from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2021. They combine heavy rhythmic grooves with thrash metal speed and aggression.
Heavy and thrash metal band from Basel, Switzerland, formed in 2021. They combine the classic power of heavy metal with the sharp, aggressive edge of thrash.
Thrash metal band from Fredrikstad, southeastern Norway, formed in 2019. Cold Response delivers aggressive thrash from the Østfold region.
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