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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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Metalcore and thrash band from Chichester, England, active since 2004. With two decades of activity, they blend metalcore with thrash from the West Sussex cathedral city.
Death-thrash metal band from Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, formed in 2024. They merge death metal brutality with thrash speed from the historic Reformation city.
Thrash metal band from Munich, Germany, active since 2011. They deliver aggressive, riff-heavy thrash from the Bavarian capital.
Death and thrash metal band from Leoben, Austria, active since 2017. They bring a punishing combination of death metal heaviness and thrash metal speed from the industrial heartland of Upper Styria.
Thrash metal band from Leeds, England, active since 2013. They deliver aggressive thrash from Yorkshire.
Thrash metal band from the port city of Rijeka, Croatia, formed in 2016. Czaar brings aggressive, riff-driven thrash to the Adriatic metal scene.
Black-speed-thrash act from Lisbon, active since 2014. Cães de Guerra — Portuguese for 'dogs of war' — delivers ferocious, war-themed extreme metal from the Portuguese capital.
Bucharest thrash metal act launched in 2025, whose Romanian name translates to 'Executioner,' delivering punishing aggression from the capital's underground. Their razor-sharp riffing channels the genre's tradition of lethal precision.
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