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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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Thrash metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2023. They bring fresh, hard-hitting thrash energy to the German capital's vibrant metal scene.
Death-thrash metal band from Ubeda in Jaen province, Spain, emerging in 2025. They bring fresh aggression to the Andalusian extreme metal scene.
Doom, heavy, and thrash metal band from Halberstadt, Germany, formed in 2020. They blend the crushing weight of doom with thrash metal's speed and traditional heavy metal's hooks.
Groove-thrash band from Barletta in Puglia, southern Italy, active since 2005. Cancrena — Italian for 'gangrene' — has delivered two decades of aggressive, riff-driven metal.
Death-thrash metal band from Alzenau, Germany, active since 1998. With over 25 years of activity, Candra are seasoned veterans of the Franconian extreme metal scene.
Death-thrash metal band from Finland, formed in 2020. They merge death metal aggression with thrash metal speed.
Thrash metal band from Tallinn, Estonia, active since 1995. With three decades of history, Cantilena are among the longest-running thrash acts in the Baltic states.
Thrash metal band from Braga, northern Portugal, formed in 2019. Capela Mortuária — Portuguese for 'mortuary chapel' — delivers aggressive thrash from the Minho region.
Death-thrash band from Dublin, Ireland, formed in 2020. Capulus channels aggressive riffing and relentless energy rooted in the Irish capital's thriving metal scene.
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