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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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Warsaw-based black/thrash metal outfit active since 2015, fusing black metal's atmospheric venom with thrash's riff-driven velocity. Their high-energy sound channels the raw spirit of early Bathory, Sodom, and Destruction.
French melodic death/thrash metal and metalcore band from Chartres, formed in 2016. They blend melodeath and thrash with metalcore from the cathedral city of Eure-et-Loir.
Leffe (Bergamo)-based thrash metal act active since 1986, delivering riff-driven aggression rooted in the genre's foundational principles of speed, precision, and relentless energy. Their material channels the spirit of 1980s thrash through a Italian filter.
Death-grind act from Moscow, formed in 2017. Their approach strips away anything that does not serve the cause of sheer aggression, delivering sub-two-minute salvos of blast beats and guttural fury.
Spanish death metal band from Hernani in the Basque Country, formed in 2013. They forge brotherhood-bound death metal from the Basque heartland.
Death/thrash outfit from Piława Górna, formed in 2020. Their sound channels the raw energy of 1980s thrash through death metal's heavier lens, pairing aggressive vocals with riff-centric compositions.
Toscolano-Maderno (Brescia)-based thrash metal act active since 2021, delivering riff-driven aggression rooted in the genre's foundational principles of speed, precision, and relentless energy. Their material channels the spirit of 1980s thrash through a Italian filter.
Thrash metal outfit from Athens, formed in 2021. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
German heavy metal band from Schweinfurt, formed in 2024. They play classic heavy metal from the Franconian industrial heartland.
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