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Featured Album
Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA "Song To The Siren" by This Mortal Coil (written by Tim Buckley) (2021)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Trouble And Their Double Lives (Live) (2023)
05/20 @ Varsity Theater - Minneapolis, Minneapolis
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Defier is a thrash/speed metal band from Hämeenlinna, Finland, active since 2013. They deliver blistering speed and thrash metal from central Finland.
Deflagrator is a black and thrash metal band from Naples, Italy, formed in 2011. Hailing from the deepest grounds of the Italian wasteland, the four-piece delivers fierce extreme metal across releases like 'Raising Weapons for the Beast' and 'Terror Grave Emanations.'
Defleshed is a death and thrash metal band from Uppsala, Sweden, formed in 2022. The project channels aggressive death/thrash from the historic university city.
Defneta is a thrash metal band from Wejherowo, Poland, formed in 2022. The project delivers fast and aggressive thrash metal from the Pomeranian coast.
Deformachine is a death and thrash metal band from Alessandria, Italy, formed in 2020. The project combines the brutality of death metal with thrash metal's velocity in a devastating Italian extreme metal assault.
Deforment is a black/death/thrash metal band from Santa Lucía de Tirajana, Gran Canaria, Spain, formed in 2020. They deliver a triple assault of black, death, and thrash metal from the Canary Islands.
Defraktor is a thrash metal band from Belfort, France, formed in 2023. They deliver refracted thrash aggression from eastern France.
Defuze plays heavy/thrash metal from Vila do Conde on Portugal's northern coast, active since 2007 and delivering nearly two decades of explosive, riff-heavy compositions. Their disarming name belies music that detonates with full force.
Degeneratör is a speed/thrash metal band from Tartu, Estonia, formed in 2016. They play blistering speed/thrash with old-school energy and umlaut attitude.
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