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Slaughter & Apparatus - A Methodical Overture (2023)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Thrash metal band from Halle (Saale), Germany, with roots stretching back to 1989. As one of the oldest thrash acts in eastern Germany, they have delivered decades of relentless, neck-snapping thrash from the former East German underground.
Hammer of Dawn is a melodic thrash metal band from Amsterdam, Netherlands, active since 2021 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
Heavy/thrash metal and metalcore band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2022. Their versatile sound bridges the gap between traditional heavy metal power, thrash velocity, and metalcore breakdowns from Germany's northern metropolis.
Thrash/death metal band from Grevenbroich, Germany, active since 2013. Their punishing crossover of thrash and death metal delivers relentless aggression from the Rhineland industrial heartland.
Black metal project from Mikkeli in eastern Finland, active since 2016. Their dark compositions channel the cold isolation of Finland's lakeland interior into fierce, atmospheric black metal.
Progressive/Power/Thrash Metal force from Udine, thunderous and relentless since 1993. Their thrash assault combines speed, aggression, and precision in equal measure.
Thrash metal/hardcore band from Rostock, Germany, active since 2013. Their aggressive crossover brings the raw energy of hardcore punk to thrash metal's speed-driven assault from the Baltic coast.
Drawing from Norrköping's metal heritage, this heavy/thrash metal outfit channels fierce energy since 2015. Drawing on both Bay Area and Teutonic thrash, they deliver relentless aggression.
Hang the Traitor is a death/thrash metal band from Lisbon, Portugal, formed in 2013. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
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