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Featured Album
Slaughter & Apparatus - A Methodical Overture (2023)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Versus the World (2015)
05/12 @ 1st SUMMIT ARENA at Cambria County War Memorial, Johnstown
Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Jester Race (Black Ash-Inheritance Version) (2022)
05/12 @ The Rave - Eagles Club, Milwaukee
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Speed/thrash/black metal band from Nurensdorf, Switzerland, formed in 2016. Their savage blend of speed, thrash, and black metal channels the most extreme end of the Swiss metal spectrum.
Hellhighspeed is a black/thrash/speed metal act from Bordeaux, France, active since 2020 and fusing black metal's corrosive darkness with the speed and aggression of thrash. The project delivers volatile crossover fury.
Luxembourgish thrash/black metal project channeling dark darkness since 2018. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
Groove/thrash metal band from Seville, Spain, formed in 2018. Their aggressive crossover merges groove metal weight with thrash speed from the Andalusian capital.
Black/thrash metal band from Gelsenkirchen/Cologne, Germany, active since 2011. Their savage fusion of blackened atmosphere and thrash metal speed delivers relentless aggression from the Ruhr-Rhine corridor.
Hellias is a thrash metal band from Kraków, Poland, active since 2009 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
Hellicobacter is a thrash/groove metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2019. They blend thrash metal's velocity with groove metal's rhythmic punch.
Hellish Force is a black/thrash/speed metal act from Oslo, Norway, active since 2025 and fusing black metal's corrosive darkness with the speed and aggression of thrash. The project delivers volatile crossover fury.
Hellium is a thrash metal band from Poland, active since 2010 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
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