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Bastardös are a thrash metal band from the La Paternal neighborhood of Buenos Aires, built around vocalist and guitarist Tommy Doglioli alongside drummer Federico Pinzolas, guitarist Camilo Ibañez, and bassist Maximiliano López. The band earned a reputation in the Argentine underground for visceral live shows and lyrics grounded in everyday street-level hardship. Their 2024 album Entierrö, a 27-minute slab of aggressive thrash, was formally presented at Uniclub in Buenos Aires to mark the record's official release.
Thrash metal outfit from Råholt, formed in 2013. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Basttardz are a crossover thrash/hardcore band from São Luís, Maranhão, formed in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. Taking cues from Ratos de Porão, Municipal Waste, and D.R.I., the band sings entirely in Portuguese and channels working-class Brazilian rage on their debut album Brasil com Z, which tackles labor exploitation and social inequality in eight tracks recorded in a garage spirit.
Relentless Black / Death / Groove Metal / Grindcore from Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas (early); Austin, Texas (later).
A short-lived Houston thrash act from 1985 that quickly renamed themselves Crucial Surge after discovering a New York band already claimed the Battalion name.
Finnish thrash/heavy metal band from Vantaa, formed in 2024. They play aggressive thrash and heavy metal from the Helsinki metropolitan area.
Bathory was a Swedish extreme metal band from Vällingby, formed in March 1983 by sole constant member Thomas Forsberg, known as Quorthon, whose first four albums—raw, lo-fi, and openly Satanic—are regarded as foundational documents of Scandinavian black metal. Beginning with Blood Fire Death (1988) and fully realized on Hammerheart (1990), Quorthon pivoted to an epic, Norse-mythology-driven style that effectively created Viking metal as a subgenre. Quorthon died of heart failure in June 2004 at age 38, ending the band; his two-decade body of work remains among the most influential in extreme metal.
Prekmurje-based thrash/groove metal act active since 2012, anchoring their riff-driven assault in mid-tempo grooves that demand involuntary headbanging. Their compositions balance thrash metal's speed with the crushing rhythmic weight of groove metal.
Since 2018, this Dutch thrash metal act has delivered high-velocity riff assaults from Rotterdam. Their sound channels the raw energy of the genre's golden era through tight musicianship.
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