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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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A Sleeping Hydra is an experimental thrash metal band from California. Their sound merges thrash aggression with avant-garde experimentation, documented across their 2023 EP "Carry A Light" and 2024 full-length "Global Evil."
A Taste of Fear wields technical thrash and death metal from Rome since 2017, their evocative name promising the dread their precision-engineered riffing delivers. The Eternal City's ancient gravitas underscores the disciplined ferocity of their approach.
A Thousand Reasons has channeled death and thrash metal from the northeastern Italian city of Pordenone since 2010. Nestled between the Alps and the Adriatic, their Friulian base provides an unexpectedly fertile setting for their aggressive dual-genre assault.
Athens' A.B.L. fuse black and thrash metal into a ferocious assault of speed-driven riffing and venomous vocals. Formed in 2020, they channel the aggression of the first-wave Greek black metal scene through a modern thrash-inflected lens.
A power metal and thrash metal band from Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, A.C.E. formed in 2019 and channel the twin-guitar attack and anthemic energy of classic European power metal alongside thrash aggression. The project remains an active force in the northern German metal underground.
A.D.H.E.R. is a heavy/thrash metal band from Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego, whose name is taken from the title of a Hermética song. The band released the album De otras tierras, recorded and mixed in Tierra del Fuego in 2006 and issued in 2007 through Argentina Thrash Metal, reflecting the raw, isolated energy of Argentina's southernmost metal scene.
A.L.P. plays heavy, thrash, and speed metal from an undisclosed Swedish location since 2020. Their abbreviated Alpine name drives multi-genre metal that draws from the most foundational aggressive styles.
Emerging from Bad Pyrmont, Germany in 2018, A.M.E.S. fuse death metal ferocity with thrash metal precision in a potent crossover style. The band represents the continued vitality of extreme metal in the Lower Saxony region.
A.O.D. thrashes from the South Ostrobothnian town of Kauhajoki, bringing aggressive thrash metal to one of Finland's more rural corners since 2012. Their abbreviated name carries the urgency and directness of their musical attack.
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