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Featured Album
Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Black-doom-thrash metal band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2024. They blend the darkness of black metal with doom weight and thrash aggression from the Hanseatic port city.
Bucharest experimental death/thrash metal project formed in 2022, pushing conventional extreme metal boundaries through unconventional compositional approaches. Their adventurous sonic vision refuses to be constrained by genre orthodoxy.
Death-thrash band from Warsaw, formed in 2020. Cryptic Rites delivers aggressive extreme metal from the Polish capital.
Death-thrash metal band from Leeds, England, formed in 2015. Cryptic Shift have earned acclaim for their ambitious, technical approach to extreme metal from Yorkshire.
Groove-thrash metal band from Toulouse, France, formed in 2016. They combine heavy grooves with thrash aggression from the Pink City.
Belarusian metal act blending death metal, industrial metal, and thrash metal into a mechanized, aggressive sound. Their genre-crossing approach draws from both extreme and electronic metal traditions.
Death-thrash act from Grândola in the Alentejo, active since 2010. Cryptor Morbious Family channels morbid, family-styled extreme metal from southern Portugal's cork oak country.
Progressive thrash metal band from Enschede in Overijssel, active since 2012. Cryptosis has earned international acclaim for their technically ambitious, forward-thinking thrash metal.
Melodic death-thrash metal band from the Melun/Fontainebleau area near Paris, France. They merge melodic death metal with thrash speed from the Ile-de-France.
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