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Featured Album
The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Nihility (2002)
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Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Industrial, doom, and thrash metal hybrid from Zurich, Switzerland, active since 2014. They forge an unusual fusion of industrial harshness, doom's weight, and thrash metal's aggression.
Rostov-on-Don-based thrash/groove metal act active since 2019, anchoring their riff-driven assault in mid-tempo grooves that demand involuntary headbanging. Their compositions balance thrash metal's speed with the crushing rhythmic weight of groove metal.
German melodic power metal band from Stuttgart, formed in 2016. They deliver soaring melodic power metal with anthemic choruses and precision guitar work.
Spanish thrash metal band from Valencia, active since 1999. With over a quarter century of thrash, they are one of Valencia's most enduring metal acts.
Thrash metal band from Liege, Belgium, formed in 2025. A brand-new thrash act bringing high-energy aggression from the Wallonian region.
German death metal band from Saarbrücken, formed in 2019. They channel predatory death metal from the Saarland capital.
Groove metal outfit from Austevoll, formed in 2018. Their material trades in the satisfying crunch of heavy, rhythmically driven riffs that demand involuntary neck movement.
London-based duo merging doom metal's crushing weight with post-black metal's atmospheric sweep since 2020. Their compositions drift between suffocating heaviness and ethereal expanses, evoking swampland desolation.
Melodic black metal outfit from Russia, formed in 2016. Layers of orchestration and twin-guitar harmonies elevate their compositions beyond standard black metal into more expansive territory.
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