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Let You Go (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Halo (2017)
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Spanish thrash/death metal band from Carballo in Galicia, formed in 2013. They deliver broken-flow thrash-death from the Atlantic coast of A Coruña province.
Melodic death/thrash metal band from Geneva, Switzerland, active since 2017. They bring melodic aggression from Switzerland's cosmopolitan French-speaking metropolis.
Heavy/power/thrash metal band from Vannes in Brittany, formed in 2024. Their debut Waiting for the End is an eleven-track album of groove-inflected death-thrash with tracks like Prophet's Razor Blade and Trip In Hell spanning over fifty minutes of relentless heaviness.
Zagreb-based thrash metal act active since 2020, delivering riff-driven aggression rooted in the genre's foundational principles of speed, precision, and relentless energy. Their material channels the spirit of 1980s thrash through a Croatian filter.
Since 2013, this Swedish thrash metal act has delivered high-velocity riff assaults from Stockholm. Their sound channels the raw energy of the genre's golden era through tight musicianship.
Thrash metal outfit from Bacău, formed in 2014. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Thrash metal outfit from Milan, formed in 2018. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Brutal Death was a death/thrash metal band formed in 2011 in Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil. The band operated in the underground extreme metal scene of the Amazon region before disbanding.
Black/thrash metal and punk power trio from Lyon, active since 2019, drawing from Motorhead, Darkthrone, Bathory, and Celtic Frost. Their releases Infernal Bigotry and Armageddon merge first-wave black metal darkness with speed metal and punk aggression, steeped in medieval fantasy and Robert E. Howard references.
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