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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Thessaloniki-based death/thrash metal act active since 2013, fusing death metal's guttural intensity with thrash's riff-driven velocity and rhythmic precision. Their high-energy approach delivers the heaviness of death metal married to thrash's urgent momentum.
German thrash metal band from North Rhine-Westphalia, formed in 2017. They play straightforward, flesh-ripping thrash metal.
German death/thrash metal band from Fulda, active since 2010. They combine death and thrash metal's brutal energies from the Hessian city at the crossroads of Germany.
French death/thrash metal band from Toulon on the Mediterranean, formed in 2018. They deliver ritualistic death-thrash from the Provençal naval port.
German thrash/death/black metal band from Leipzig, formed in 2010. They draw from three extreme metal traditions for a wide-ranging, vengeance-fueled assault.
French heavy/thrash metal band from Aix-en-Provence, active since 2009. They deliver retaliatory heavy and thrash metal from sun-drenched Provence.
Melodic death/thrash metal and crossover band from Nyon, Switzerland, active since 2014. They blend melodic death metal hooks with thrash and crossover energy from the shores of Lake Geneva.
Blowpipe is a death/thrash metal band from Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. The band draws direct influence from the major thrash metal acts of the 1980s and death metal bands of the 1990s, and released a self-titled album in September 2020 through their own Blowpipe Records imprint. Their lineup includes Jean Quiles on vocals, Gedeon Alves on guitar, Edynho Baiochi on bass, and Johnny Hoglan on drums.
Thrash/black metal band from Nicosia, Cyprus, active since 2013. They channel aggressive extreme metal from the Mediterranean island.
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