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Let You Go (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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Halo (2017)
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New York's Elefantkiller blend crossover thrash with straight-up thrash metal into something loud, chaotic, and absurdly fun — the band's name says everything about their commitment to over-the-top heaviness since 2013.
New Orleans crossover thrash act Elimination have been knocking heads since 2009, bringing the Crescent City's deep-seated aggression to a genre that thrives on speed, chaos, and hardcore-punk intensity.
Orlando thrash metal project from the Florida underground.
Thrash metal and crossover act from Almeria in southeastern Spain, delivering high-speed, punk-infused aggression since 2018. Their biologically referencing name adds a scientific edge to their chaotic crossover thrash.
Chicago's Empty Grave have been thrashing the crossover circuit since 2016, turning the city's hardcore aggression loose on a hard-charging riff machine that owes equal debts to D.R.I. and early Metallica.
Nizhny Novgorod's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this crossover thrash and thrash metal unit is among them — wielding hardcore punk velocity fused with thrash metal's technical edge. Uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
Baltimore's End Reign pull from crossover thrash, metalcore, and straight-up thrash to produce something with the urgency of punk and the technical bite of metal — fitting for a city with deep hardcore roots and a battle-hardened heavy music scene.
Crossover thrash band from Guerande in Brittany, France formed in 2022. They deliver fast, punk-infused thrash from the Atlantic coast.
Long Island's Enemy of the State tears through crossover thrash, death, and thrash metal with the kind of suburban fury that only comes from growing up next to New York City. Since 2016, the Riverhead crew has built a ferocious sound that refuses to sit still within any single subgenre.
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