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Featured Album
Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes (Luxus) (2018)
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Versus the World (Bonus Edition) (2015)
05/12 @ 1st SUMMIT ARENA at Cambria County War Memorial, Johnstown
Featured Black Metal Album
Death Doom Punks (2026)
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Heat Affected Zone is a thrash/heavy metal band from Gliwice, Poland, active since 2020 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
Heat Shock is a crust punk/thrash metal band from Pushchino, Russia, active since 2013 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
Thrash metal band from Karlsruhe, Germany, active since 2016. Their scorching thrash delivers blistering speed and aggressive riffing from the heart of Baden.
Death metal outfit from Cardiff, the Welsh capital, active since 2022. Named after a mythological hybrid creature, their sound delivers crushing death metal with monstrous intensity from the Welsh underground.
Death/thrash metal band from Canobbio, Switzerland, active since 2004. Their ferocious crossover of death and thrash metal has been a fixture of the Ticino metal scene for two decades.
Heavy Merda is a thrash metal/crossover, grindcore act from Italy, active since 2025 and delivering chaotic, ferocious bursts of extreme music at breakneck velocity. The project channels the genre's most frenzied and violent impulses.
Hebephrenic is a death/thrash metal band from Stoke-on-Trent, England, formed in 2012. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Madrid-based speed metal outfit active since 2013, one of the Spanish capital's most enduring metal acts. Their wall-like name matches a sound built on solid foundations of classic speed and heavy metal.
Hecatomb is a thrash metal band from Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom, active since 2020 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
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