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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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Thrash metal band from Rochlitz, Germany formed in 2020. Whiplash brings rapid-fire riffing and relentless energy to the Saxon thrash scene with an uncompromising approach to speed and aggression.
Thrash metal band from Yutz, France formed in 2021. White Bastard channels raw thrash aggression from the Moselle region near the Luxembourg border.
Thrash metal band from Munich, Germany formed in 2014 with a catalog spanning from early demos through releases like The Iron Curse EP, Sacrifice Your Future, and Arrows at the Sun. White Mantis delivers relentless thrash from Bavaria with a raw, underground edge.
Death and thrash metal band from Catalonia, Spain formed in 2017. Whitedeath combines death metal's guttural fury with thrash's speed from the northeast of Spain.
Black, death, and thrash metal band from Valencia, Spain active since 2017. Whoredom unleashes a triple-pronged attack of extreme subgenres, merging the darkness of black metal with the brutality of death and speed of thrash.
Thrash metal band from Kraków, Poland formed in 2023. Whorehouse channels raw thrash aggression from the cultural capital of southern Poland.
Avant-garde thrash metal band from Nuoro, Sardinia active since 2001. Why? brings over two decades of experimental thrash metal from the mountainous interior of the Mediterranean island.
Thrash metal band from Düsseldorf, Germany formed in 2015. Wicked Kemao delivers aggressive thrash from the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area with rapid riffing and relentless energy.
Thrash metal and crossover band from Vöhringen, Germany active since 2012. Wicked Power merges the speed of thrash with crossover punk energy, keeping the Bavarian underground scene charged with high-octane aggression.
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