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Featured Album
The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Haverhill, Massachusetts death-thrash band channeling the Northeast's underground extremity through punishing riffs, aggressive tempos, and a raw, unpolished production ethic.
Charlton, Massachusetts power metal band forging anthemic, riff-driven songs rooted in the classic tradition — thick guitar tones, soaring leads, and a muscular New England heaviness.
Power-speed metal band from Valledoria in Sassari province, Sardinia, formed in 2020. Crimson Storm delivers anthemic, high-velocity metal from the Mediterranean island.
Heavy and power metal band from the coastal town of Piombino in Livorno province, active since 2017. Crimson Thunder brings classic European power metal to the Tuscan seaboard.
Heavy and power metal band from Wrocław, active since 2010. Crimson Valley channels classic European power metal from the capital of Lower Silesia.
Symphonic power metal band from Palermo, Sicily, active since 2011. Crimson Wind delivers soaring melodies and orchestral bombast from Italy's largest island.
Crossover thrash and power-thrash act from Budapest, active since 2009. Crippled Fox combines high-speed thrash riffing with punk energy and melodic power metal elements.
Sacramento power/speed/thrash outfit Critical Mass deliver high-octane riff attacks rooted in the Bay Area tradition, blending melodic power metal hooks with aggressive thrash tempos.
Los Angeles-based Crom cast an unusually wide net across doom, sludge, grind, power, and thrash, resulting in a chaotic and unpredictable strain of heavy music from the SoCal underground.
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