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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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An established thrash metal voice from Växjö, contributing to Sweden's underground since 2010. Razor-sharp riffing and breakneck tempos carry the spirit of classic thrash.
Thrash/death metal band from Usingen, Germany, formed in 2019. Their aggressive crossover delivers relentless thrash-death fury from the Taunus hills of Hesse.
Hypocrite is a death/thrash metal band from Egersund, Norway, formed in 2017. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Hypokras is a thrash/death metal band from Tarbes, France, formed in 2002. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Hypoxic is a groove/thrash metal band from Trysil, Norway, formed in 2025. They blend thrash metal's velocity with groove metal's rhythmic punch.
Häxänking is a thrash/black/death metal band from Varaždin, Croatia, formed in 2024. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Speed/thrash metal act from Belgium, formed in 2021. Their blistering approach combines the velocity of speed metal with thrash metal's aggressive edge in a whirlwind of headbanging intensity.
Hëllstrike is a black/thrash metal act from Bucharest, Romania, active since 2020 and fusing black metal's corrosive darkness with the speed and aggression of thrash. The project delivers volatile crossover fury.
Blackened thrash metal band from Aurich, Germany, active since 2013. Their fierce fusion of blackened atmosphere and thrash metal speed rages from the East Frisian coast.
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