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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 band from Vicenza, active since 2012. Crisalide — Italian for 'chrysalis' — delivers aggressive extreme metal from the Veneto region.
Thrash metal band from Igualada near Barcelona, Spain, active since 2021. They deliver high-energy, riff-driven thrash from the Catalan interior.
Grind-thrash act from Stella Santa Giustina in Savona province, Liguria, formed in 2019. Critical Condition fuses grindcore intensity with thrash metal riffing from the Ligurian hills.
Thrash metal band from Bergamo, Lombardy, formed in 2025. Critical Damage brings fresh thrash energy to the Italian scene.
Technical death-thrash act from Moscow, formed in 2019. Critical Extravasation — a medical term for bleeding — delivers precise, technically demanding extreme metal.
Thrash metal band from Węgrów in eastern Masovia, active since 2013. Critical Insanity has spent over a decade delivering aggressive thrash from the Polish countryside.
Thrash metal band from Orleans, France, formed in 2020. They deliver aggressive thrash from the Loire Valley capital.
Blackened thrash act from Catania, Sicily, active since 2013. Cromìa Oscura — Italian for 'dark hue' — channels dark aggression from beneath Mount Etna.
Death-thrash metal band from Gomel, Belarus. Their sound merges the technical precision of death metal with the relentless speed of thrash, forging an aggressive and unrelenting approach to extreme music.
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