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AntiFragile (2025)
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Chaos Realm is an independent thrash and speed metal band from Barbacena, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The band operates as an unsigned act within Brazil's underground thrash metal scene, with lyrical themes centered on death, blood, earth, and souls.
Black-speed-thrash metal band from Rethymno, Crete, formed in 2018. They fuse black metal with speed and thrash from the historic Cretan port city.
Speed metal band from Gelsenkirchen, Germany, formed in 2017. They deliver high-velocity, riff-driven speed metal from the industrial heart of the Ruhr.
Oakland speed metal outfit Charger tears through high-velocity riffs with a raw, street-level aggression rooted in the Bay Area's blue-collar heavy metal tradition. Their sound sits at the crossroads of classic NWOBHM-influenced heavy metal and the breakneck energy of early speed metal.
Power and speed metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2020. They channel classic speed metal velocity with power metal hooks and melodic energy.
Power and speed metal band from Nantes, France, active since 2002. With over two decades of activity, Charter deliver seasoned power-speed metal from the Loire-Atlantique.
Long Island's Chemical Warfare channels the raw energy of NWOBHM-influenced speed and thrash metal with an East Coast bite. The band keeps their attack lean and fast, rooted in the early underground tape-trading era.
Cleveland's Chemikill marries the twin-guitar fire of power metal to the breakneck pace of speed metal, delivering melodic muscle with serious velocity. Ohio's working-class grit runs through every track.
Heavy and speed metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2017. Chevalier deliver high-velocity, riff-driven metal in the classic speed metal tradition from the Finnish capital.
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