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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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Thrash metal act from Hamburg, Germany, delivering explosive, high-speed aggression since 2013. Their violently evocative name captures the destructive energy of their no-holds-barred thrash approach.
Death/thrash metal band from Tomblaine near Nancy, France with origins dating to 1992. They are among the longest-running extreme metal acts in the Lorraine region.
A product of a scene with deep roots in the former Czechoslovak underground, this Michalovce-based death metal and thrash metal act channels punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Active since 2007, primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
Orzesze/Żory-based heavy metal and thrash metal act, active since 2018 delivering Bay Area velocity married to Teutonic heaviness. Rooted in one of Eastern Europe's most formidable metal communities, circle-pit fuel delivered with workmanlike consistency.
Progressive metal and thrash band from Finland, active since 2012. They blend technical progressive complexity with thrash metal aggression.
Thrash metal band from Valencia, Spain formed in 2020. They bring sharp-edged thrash riffing to Valencia's Mediterranean metal scene.
Heavy/thrash metal act from Dortmund in Germany's Ruhr Valley, merging traditional metal power with thrash velocity since 2016. Their biblical exodus-referencing name lends epic scope to their powerful, riff-driven compositions.
Thrash metal band from Chard, England formed in 2021. They deliver riff-driven thrash from the Somerset countryside.
Death/thrash metal band from Madrid, Spain active since 2012. They deliver fierce, extreme metal from the heart of the Spanish capital.
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