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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 Wasbek in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, active since 2002. With over two decades of activity, Cosmic Haze are seasoned thrash veterans from the North German plains.
Progressive thrash act from Zhytomyr in central Ukraine, formed in 2022. Cosmic Jaguar delivers technically ambitious thrash from the Polissia region.
Progressive thrash metal band from Salzburg, Austria, active since 2014. They expand the thrash template with progressive structures and technical musicianship, adding cerebral depth to high-speed aggression.
Groove-thrash-metalcore hybrid from Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, active since 2014. Cosmogon delivers genre-crossing aggression from the country's second-largest city.
Italian thrash metal unit forged in 2016, named after the rare neurological delusion where patients believe they are dead. Their caustic riffing and aggressive attack reflect the psychological horror embedded in their namesake condition.
Crossover thrash band from Serres in northern Greece, formed in 2019. They blend thrash metal with hardcore punk energy from the Macedonian region.
Death-thrash metal band from Motril on the Granada coast, Spain, emerging in 2025. They bring fresh aggression to the Andalusian extreme metal scene.
Thrash metal band from Regensburg, Germany, active since 2012. They deliver fast, hard-hitting thrash with irreverent energy from the medieval Bavarian city.
Groove-thrash act from Kovin in the Banat region, formed in 2026. CounterIgnition represents the newest wave of Serbian thrash metal.
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