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Featured Album
The Blind Leading The Blind (2018)
Featured Grindcore Album
Scum (2017)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes (Luxus) (2018)
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Death-thrash metal band from the Buchholz/Nordhausen area of Thuringia, Germany, active since 2010. They merge death metal brutality with thrash metal speed from the southern Harz region.
Death-thrash act from Wałbrzych in Lower Silesia, active since 2009. Cremathory has delivered over fifteen years of aggressive extreme metal from the Sudeten mountain region.
Death-thrash metal band from Silkeborg in central Jutland, Denmark, active since 2010. They deliver aggressive death-thrash from the Danish lake district.
Death-thrash metal band from Kiiminki near Oulu, Finland, active since 2009. They deliver aggressive death-thrash from northern Finland.
Thrash metal band from Saint Petersburg, formed in 2021. Crime Line delivers aggressive thrash from Russia's northern capital.
Thrash metal band from Trondheim, formed in 2025. Crime Zone brings fresh, aggressive thrash to central Norway.
Groove-thrash band from Vignola near Modena, formed in 2022. Crimes delivers rhythmically-driven aggression from the Emilia-Romagna underground.
Death-thrash act from Dublin, formed in 2023. Criminal Jammage brings raw, aggressive energy to the Irish capital's extreme metal community.
Thrash metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2020. They deliver fast, riff-driven thrash from the German capital.
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