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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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Technical thrash metal band from Sofia, Bulgaria active since 2009. Wartime brings intricate riffing and complex arrangements to the Bulgarian thrash scene, pushing the genre's boundaries with technical precision.
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Thrash metal band from Kyiv, Ukraine active since 2013. Warwar delivers aggressive thrash from the Ukrainian capital with a name that emphasizes relentless warfare.
Death/thrash metal band from Berlin, Germany active since 2009. Waryag merges the brutality of death metal with thrash's velocity, bringing over a decade of extreme metal to Berlin's underground.
Thrash metal band from Malle, Belgium that started in 2016 in Westmalle, Antwerp. Comprised of local scene veterans, they deliver what they describe as a blend of modern thrash, heavy, power, and industrial metal, though they prefer to call it simply "metal to the bone."
Groove and melodic thrash metal band from Aranjuez, Spain formed in 2020 with alternative influences. We All Fall blends groove-laden heaviness with melodic thrash precision from the historic royal town south of Madrid.
Progressive thrash and doom metal band from Porto, Portugal active since 2017, evolving from groove/power/thrash origins. Web has pushed their sound into increasingly progressive and doom-laden territory from Portugal's northern capital.
Heavy and thrash metal band from Neukirchen, Germany formed in 2013. Welded fuses the power of traditional heavy metal with the speed and aggression of thrash into a no-frills German metal assault.
Black/thrash metal and grindcore band from Brønnøysund, Norway formed in 2020. Whip unleashes extreme speed and aggression from the small coastal town on the Helgeland coast of northern Norway.
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