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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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Progressive death and thrash metal band originally formed in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1990, with members now based in Germany and the United States. Their 2024 self-titled debut features compositions from the 1990s exploring themes of religion, predestination, and mortality.
Speed-thrash metal band from Kallithea, Athens, Greece, active since 2007. They deliver high-velocity thrash from the Greek capital.
Black-thrash metal band from Zaragoza, Spain, formed in 2015. They fuse the raw darkness of black metal with thrash metal aggression from the Aragonese capital.
Groove-thrash metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2011. They combine heavy grooves with thrash speed from the Finnish capital.
Heavy thrash band from Rostov-on-Don, active since 2012. Corner Stone delivers aggressive, riff-driven metal from the southern Russian steppe.
Thrash metal band from Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, formed in 2020. They represent the thrash metal revival in the Bosnian Republika Srpska with aggressive, riff-driven compositions.
Death-thrash metal band from France, active since 2005. They deliver aggressive death-thrash metal with two decades of experience.
Thrash metal, crossover, and hardcore act from Targu Mures formed in 2019, fusing aggressive riffing with punk energy from the heart of Transylvania. Their genre-blending approach channels raw intensity from multiple extreme music traditions.
Austrian speed and thrash metal project born out of the 2020 pandemic lockdowns. Their 'Pandemic Isolation Demo MMXX' channels quarantine frustration into blistering speed metal with hardcore and punk aggression.
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