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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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Czech thrash/death metal band from Prague, delivering relentless aggression since 2006. As one of Prague's longer-running extreme acts, they channel two decades of thrash and death metal intensity into their punishing sound.
London-based technical thrash metal band formed in 2022, pushing thrash metal's boundaries through technical precision. Their brain-surgery name signals the surgical, technically exacting character of their thrash.
Thrash metal band from Pilsen, Czech Republic, tearing through classic thrash riffs since 2019. Their sound carries the raw energy and speed that defines the genre's most pit-ready material.
Russian thrash/heavy metal band from Moscow, formed in 2022 and combining thrash velocity with heavy metal power. Their name channels the trapped, restrained energy that explodes through their aggressive sound.
French thrash metal/crossover/hardcore band from Paris, merging thrash speed with punk attitude since 2018. Their name, a fusion of 'loco' and 'muerte,' captures the wild, death-defying energy of their crossover assault.
Russian thrash/death/groove metal band from Moscow, combining three strains of metal aggression since 2017. Their name, meaning 'madness,' captures the volatile, unhinged character of their multi-genre assault.
London-based thrash/death/groove metal band formed in 2019, combining three strains of metal aggression. Their versatile approach spans thrash speed, death metal brutality, and groove metal's rhythmic punch.
German melodic thrash metal band from Isny im Allgau, blending technical precision with thrash aggression since 2014. Their approach layers melodic sophistication over the genre's high-speed foundation.
Italian death/thrash metal band from Florence, newly formed in 2025 and named after a Norse mythological event. Their approach channels the chaos of Loki's flyting through aggressive Tuscan metal.
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