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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 metal band from Bayonne in the French Basque Country, formed in 2022. They deliver fierce extreme metal from the southwestern frontier.
Part of Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape, this act channels groove metal and thrash metal with a focus on crossover-tinged fury with punk's directness and metal's complexity. Formed in 2016, based in Volzhsky, their approach channels the urgency of early Metallica and Slayer.
Melodic thrash metal act from Dortmund in Germany's Ruhr Valley, formed in 2021. Their archaic German name, meaning "arch enemy," drives a sound that blends melodic precision with thrash metal's relentless aggression.
In existence since 2014, this Sneek Thrash Metal outfit delivers crossover-tinged fury with punk's directness and metal's complexity. Their place within Holland's dense concentration of metal talent speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Thrash metal act from Oeventrop in Germany's Sauerland region, formed in 2021, delivering aggressive, riff-driven compositions. Their name captures the intensifying, building energy of their thrash metal assault.
In existence since 2023, this Pordenone Black Metal, Death Metal, and Thrash Metal outfit delivers tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Their place within Italy's underrated but thriving metal community speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Thrash/groove metal and metalcore hybrid from Sion in Switzerland's Valais region, blending multiple aggressive styles since 2011. Their genre-crossing approach draws from thrash speed, groove heaviness, and metalcore dynamics.
Death/thrash metal band from Seville, Spain formed in 2010, with releases including the 2010 debut Estado: Psicotico and 2013's Ex Vacuo. Their ten-track Spanish-language assault channels themes of internal chaos, agoraphobia, and radical thought.
Drawing from Malmö's musical fabric, this Swedish act forges Thrash Metal built on circle-pit anthems driven by relentless double-kick propulsion. Speed and precision collide in pit-ready anthems.
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