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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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Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels death metal and thrash metal with a focus on guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Formed in 2021, based in Reggio Emilia, expect nothing but full-bore death metal savagery.
Black/thrash/death metal band from Barcelona, formed in 2017 and merging three extreme metal subgenres into a blistering assault. Their crossfire name captures the multi-directional aggression of their genre-fusing approach.
Groove/thrash metal and crossover hardcore outfit from La Roche-sur-Yon in western France, active since 2015. They merge the pit-ready energy of hardcore punk with the crushing weight of groove and thrash metal.
Devotees of thrash metal, this Portuguese outfit from Porto has been refining their craft since 2016. Their sound hinges on circle-pit anthems driven by relentless double-kick propulsion, delivered with punishing consistency.
Thrash metal band from Oulu, formed in 2024 and delivering high-speed crushing aggression from northern Finland. Their name signals the pulverizing, bone-breaking impact of their thrash metal.
Thrash metal band from Patras, active since 2002, making them one of the longer-running thrash acts in the Greek scene. Their two-decade commitment to thrash metal speaks to both persistence and dedication to the genre's aggressive energy.
Technical thrash metal band from Prague, active since 2013 and delivering intricate, riff-dense compositions with progressive complexity. Their approach layers technical precision over a thrash metal foundation.
Death/thrash metal band from Nottingham, formed in 2023 and merging death metal's brutality with thrash metal's high-speed attack. Their sound sits at the aggressive crossroads where these two genres collide.
Melodic death/thrash metal and metalcore band from Sant Cugat del Valles near Barcelona, formed in 2022 and blending multiple aggressive styles. Their versatile approach draws from the full spectrum of modern extreme metal.
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