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Featured Album
Infinite Terror (2022)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Inhale The Noise (2026)
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Featured Grindcore Album
Apocalypse (2023)
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Black metal band from Zaragoza, Spain, formed in 2019. They channel dark, atmospheric black metal from the Aragonese capital.
Black metal project from Novosibirsk, formed in 2020. Chaigidiel channels dark, occult black metal from the Siberian capital.
Progressive thrash act from Fredrikstad, southeastern Norway, formed in 2020. Chain Home delivers technically ambitious thrash from the Østfold region.
Heavy metal band from Camborne in Cornwall, England, formed in 2024. They deliver classic heavy metal from the English West Country.
Folk-thrash act from the Heerlen and Sittard area in Limburg, active since 2012. Chain of Dogs — named after a Malazan Book of the Fallen event — blends folk melodies with thrash metal aggression.
Thrash metal band from Örebro, formed in 2025. Chain of Hate brings fresh thrash aggression to central Sweden.
NWOBHM-inspired heavy metal band from St. Columb Major in Cornwall, England, formed in 2016. They channel the spirit of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal from the Cornish countryside.
Melodic death-heavy metal band from Laihia, Finland, formed in 2021. They blend melodic death metal harmonies with classic heavy metal hooks.
Old-school thrash metal band from Linz, Austria, formed in 2018, drawing heavily from 1980s thrash traditions. Their debut 'Wasteland City' was recorded at Deep Deep Pressure Studios and released as a limited 500-copy CD pressing, channeling raw, headbanging energy.
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