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Featured Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Black Metal Album
Death Doom Punks (2026)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Tribute to Erik Lindmark (Deeds of Flesh) (2020)
05/11 @ Three Links Deep Ellum, Dallas
Featured Power Metal Album
Curse of the Crystal Coconut (2020)
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Swiss thrash metal outfit from Frauenfeld, hailed as the thrash highlight of 2015. Across four studio albums culminating in None For All, Comaniac balances captivating song structures and catchy hooks with socially and politically conscious themes.
Progressive power-thrash act from Ufa, capital of Bashkortostan, active since 2015. Comavigil delivers technically ambitious metal from the southern Urals.
Thrash metal band from Suhl in the Thuringian Forest, Germany, formed in 2024. They bring fresh thrash aggression from the wooded mountains of central Germany.
Crossover thrash act from Saint Petersburg, active since 2016. Combat Shock fuses punk energy with thrash aggression from Russia's cultural capital.
Death-thrash act from Nijmegen, formed in 2021. Comitatus — Latin for 'retinue' — delivers aggressive extreme metal from the oldest city in the Netherlands.
Thrash metal band from Krefeld, Germany, formed in 2021. They deliver aggressive, riff-driven thrash from the left bank of the Lower Rhine.
Dutch thrash metal band formed in 2013. Complication delivers raw, no-frills thrash aggression.
Death-thrash act from Italy, formed in 2023. Compound 8 delivers aggressive extreme metal combining death and thrash elements.
Death-thrash metal band from Hildesheim, Germany, formed in 2017. They merge death metal brutality with thrash metal speed from the Lower Saxon foothills.
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