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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Chapters of Repugnance (Deluxe Reissue) (2018)
05/11 @ Three Links Deep Ellum, Dallas
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
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Progressive thrash act from Nakhodka, a port city in Russia's Far East near Vladivostok, formed in 2017. Catapultah delivers technically-ambitious thrash from the Pacific coast.
Thrash metal band from Bratislava, active since 2010. Catastrofy has delivered over fifteen years of aggressive thrash from the Slovak capital.
Progressive thrash metal band from North Yorkshire, England. They merge progressive complexity with thrash metal aggression from the English countryside.
Black/thrash metal act from Kikinda in northern Serbia formed in 2022, fusing first-wave black metal aggression with thrash metal velocity. Their crossover approach channels raw punk energy alongside extreme metal ferocity.
Crossover thrash band from Kiel on the Baltic Sea, Germany, formed in 2023. They blend the speed of thrash metal with hardcore punk energy from Germany's northernmost major city.
Groove-thrash metal band from Mahon on the island of Menorca, Spain, formed in 2015. They deliver heavy grooves and thrash aggression from the Balearic Islands.
Thrash metal outfit from Wolfsberg, Austria, formed in 2020. They deliver fast, riff-driven thrash in the classic vein, bringing high-energy aggression from the Carinthian metal underground.
Thrash metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2009. They deliver aggressive, riff-driven thrash from the Finnish capital.
Death-thrash outfit from Venice, formed in 2018. Cattivator of Death — blending the Italian 'cattivo' (evil) with English — delivers aggressive extreme metal from the lagoon city.
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