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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Pursuit of Vikings: Live at Summer Breeze (Main Stage) (2018)
05/09 @ Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Ragedate is a thrash metal band from Landskrona, Sweden, formed in 2013. The band delivers aggressive, pit-ready thrash metal from the southwestern Swedish coast.
Black/thrash metal band from Kraków, Poland, active since 2016. Their aggressive name accompanies violent blackened thrash from Poland's cultural capital.
Rager is a thrash metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2015. The band channels classic thrash metal energy from the Catalan capital's active metal scene.
Death/thrash metal act from the Alpine city of Aosta, active since 2008 and bringing aggressive riffing from Italy's smallest region. Their sustained output from the shadow of Mont Blanc speaks to the genre's reach into even Italy's most remote corners.
Thrash metal band from Żory in Poland's Upper Silesia, active since 2015. Their approach delivers intense thrash from the Silesian industrial region.
Raging Rob is a thrash metal project from Düsseldorf, Germany, active since 2008. The project delivers high-speed thrash metal from the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area, one of Europe's largest urban centers.
Thrash metal band from Santo André, Portugal, formed in 2025. Their approach delivers classic thrash from the Alentejo coast.
Raging Steel is a thrash metal band from Umeå, Sweden, active since 2010. Their discography includes 'Guilty As Charged,' 'Beyond The Perdition,' and a self-titled album, delivering aggressive Scandinavian thrash with mosh-ready intensity.
Raidon is a heavy/thrash metal band from Peterborough in Cambridgeshire, England, formed in 2014. The band delivers heavy-thrash from the cathedral city in the East of England.
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