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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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Death and thrash metal band from Verona, Italy active since 2014. Warbutcher delivers a punishing hybrid of death and thrash metal from the city of Romeo and Juliet.
Stoner metal and rock band from Jyväskylä, Finland active since 2011. Warchief lays down heavy, groove-laden stoner riffs from the lake district of central Finland.
Thrash and black metal band from Rakovník, Czech Republic formed in 2015. Warchild merges the speed of thrash with the darkness of black metal in a raw, uncompromising style from the Czech underground.
Melodic death/thrash metal band from Switzerland formed in 2022. Warclaw merges the melodic sensibility of Gothenburg-style death metal with the speed and aggression of thrash into a potent Swiss hybrid.
Death and sludge metal band from Plymouth, England active since 2012. Warcrab fuses death metal's brutality with sludge's crushing weight, delivering over a decade of heavy extremity from the Devon coast.
Death metal band from Moscow, Russia active since 2012. Warder delivers punishing death metal from the Russian capital with over a decade of underground dedication.
Belgian groove metal band formed in 2012, delivering heavy, riff-driven metal built on crushing rhythms and aggressive vocals. Wardogs bring a hard-hitting low-end attack rooted in the groove metal tradition.
Thrash metal band from Belfast, Northern Ireland active since 2017, evolving from crossover thrash into grindcore and death metal territory. Wardomized has pushed their sound increasingly extreme while maintaining the aggressive energy of their crossover roots.
Power metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece active since 2012. Wardrum delivers the soaring vocals and epic compositions that define European power metal from Greece's second city.
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