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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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Death-thrash act from Almere in Flevoland, formed in 2024. Cult of Carnage brings aggressive extreme metal to the Netherlands' newest province.
Death-thrash metal band from Lamia in central Greece, formed in 2022. They deliver aggressive death-thrash from the Phthiotis region.
Black-thrash metal band from Farnborough, England, active since 2011. They deliver ferocious, riff-driven black-thrash from Hampshire.
Death-thrash band from Västerås, formed in 2018. Culverin — named after a type of cannon — delivers explosive extreme metal from the Mälaren Valley.
Heavy thrash band from Lisbon, active since 2010. Cunnilingus delivers provocatively-named, riff-driven metal from the Portuguese capital.
Thrash metal band from Konstanz on Lake Constance, Germany, formed in 2020. They channel aggressive thrash from the southern German border.
Death-thrash metal band from Loimaa, Finland, active since 2012. They merge death metal aggression with thrash speed from the Finnish countryside.
Thrash metal band from Grajewo in northeastern Poland, formed in 2023. Curiosity brings thrash energy to the remote Podlasie region.
Heavy and thrash metal band from Hoeilaart, Belgium, active since 2010. Named after the radioactive element, they deliver hard-hitting thrash with classic heavy metal foundations from the outskirts of Brussels.
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