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Strychnine.213 (Bonus Track Edition) (2023)
Featured Black Metal Album
Death Doom Punks (2026)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Curse of the Crystal Coconut (2020)
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Thrash metal band from Basel, Switzerland, formed in 2019. They deliver fast, aggressive thrash built on precise riffing and punishing rhythms.
Death-thrash act from Karlshamn in Blekinge, formed in 2017. Cryoshock delivers sharp, aggressive extreme metal from Sweden's southeastern coast.
Death-thrash band from Palermo, Sicily, active since 2011. Cryphtex delivers aggressive extreme metal from the heart of the Mediterranean.
Thrash metal band from Sarreguemines on the German border, France, active since 1992. With over three decades of history, Cryptic Art are veterans of the French thrash scene.
Death-thrash metal band from Velbert, Germany, formed in 2017. They merge death metal brutality with thrash metal precision from the Bergisches Land region.
Black-doom-thrash metal band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2024. They blend the darkness of black metal with doom weight and thrash aggression from the Hanseatic port city.
Bucharest experimental death/thrash metal project formed in 2022, pushing conventional extreme metal boundaries through unconventional compositional approaches. Their adventurous sonic vision refuses to be constrained by genre orthodoxy.
Death-thrash band from Warsaw, formed in 2020. Cryptic Rites delivers aggressive extreme metal from the Polish capital.
Death-thrash metal band from Leeds, England, formed in 2015. Cryptic Shift have earned acclaim for their ambitious, technical approach to extreme metal from Yorkshire.
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