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Asfixia is a thrash metal band from Campinas, São Paulo, one of Brazil's most active metal cities outside the capital. The band operates in the old-school thrash tradition, drawing on the deep legacy of the Campinas and São Paulo underground scenes that have produced dozens of aggressive thrash acts since the mid-1980s.
Black metal project of undisclosed origin with ten releases since 2014. Albums like Dance And Kill and Fear build a substantial catalog of raw black metal with no geographic anchor — pure anonymity in service of the sound.
Tucson thrash band channeling the Sonoran Desert's unforgiving heat into blistering speed metal, adding to Southern Arizona's small but fierce extreme music community.
Ash the Sky merges death metal, melodic death metal, and thrash metal from Newcastle upon Tyne since 2018, their sky-burning name evoking total atmospheric destruction. Their Tyneside origins feed a triple-genre assault of industrial intensity.
Ashborn delivers death and thrash metal from Northampton since 2013, their phoenix-fire name evoking the cycles of destruction and rebirth. Over a decade of East Midlands extremity speaks to sustained commitment.
Ashbrain thrashes from Turin since 2011, their name evoking a mind reduced to cinders by the intensity of their music. Nearly fifteen years of Piedmontese thrash have produced a body of work built on relentless speed and aggression.
Ashed Winter delivers death and thrash metal from the Loire town of Roanne since 2024, their name evoking scorched seasonal desolation. The project brings fresh aggression to the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
Groznjan's Ashen Divinity bring melodic death metal and thrash from the hilltop town known as Croatia's 'town of artists,' blending technical proficiency with aggressive melodicism. Active since 2014, their geographic origins make them one of extreme metal's most picturesquely situated acts.
Boise, Idaho melodic death/thrash project with an ongoing Chronicles of Suffering series since 2013. Three volumes trace an epic narrative of disillusionment through technically accomplished extreme metal from Idaho's capital — a state rarely represented in the genre.
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