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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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Since 2012, this British thrash metal act has delivered high-velocity riff assaults from Liverpool. Their sound channels the raw energy of the genre's golden era through tight musicianship.
Czech death/thrash metal band from Prague, formed in 2014, featuring a four-piece lineup of vocals, guitar, bass, and drums. Their album Descent into Madness packs six tracks of relentless death-thrash with old-school crossover influences.
Ferocious Thrash Metal / Crossover from Austin.
German black/death/thrash metal band from Rostock and Kröpelin, formed in 2019. They draw from three extreme metal pillars for a devastating, multi-pronged attack from the Baltic coast.
Heavy/thrash metal band from the Nicosia/Larnaca area of Cyprus, active since 2015. They bring European thrash and heavy metal energy to the Cypriot scene.
Thrash metal outfit from Milan, formed in 2010. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Czech thrash metal and punk band from Teplice, formed in 2017. They fuse thrash metal's speed and precision with punk's raw, confrontational energy.
Groove and thrash metal band from Belgium, active since 2015. Named after the infamous David Lynch character, they pair groove metal's rhythmic punch with thrash metal's velocity.
Bode Maldito is a one-man black/death/thrash metal project from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, operating within the Brazilian underground extreme metal scene. The project released the demo "Sodomizing Christ" digitally in 2024, with a limited physical edition of 33 copies issued in late 2024 by Poland's Unpure Records as part of their DIY Ungodly Underground Series. Lyrical themes revolve around Satanism and anti-Christianity.
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