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Death-thrash band from Riga, Latvia, formed in 2015. Chaosact brings aggressive extreme metal to the Baltic metal underground.
Melodic death-thrash band from Kiel on the Baltic Sea, Germany, active since 2011. They combine the melodic sensibilities of Scandinavian death metal with the speed of thrash.
Chaosface is a thrash metal band from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, formed in 2014. The band released their debut EP The Practice of Chaos in July 2014, followed by a re-recorded version titled The Practice of Chaos Revisited in October 2015, produced at Slowpeak Studio with an updated lineup.
Death-thrash metal band from Jyvaskyla, Finland, formed in 2019. They merge death metal aggression with thrash metal speed from the Finnish lake district.
Black-speed-thrash metal band from Rethymno, Crete, formed in 2018. They fuse black metal with speed and thrash from the historic Cretan port city.
Thrash metal band from Ruovesi in the Pirkanmaa region, Finland, active since 2013. They deliver aggressive thrash from the rural Finnish countryside.
Chaosmongers was a thrash metal band from Detroit, Michigan, formed in 2002, connected to other Detroit metal acts of the same period. The band remained an independent underground act throughout their existence before splitting up.
Blackened death-thrash band from Kassel, Germany, formed in 2018. They fuse the darkness of black metal with the brutality of death metal and the velocity of thrash.
Chaosphere is a US power and thrash metal band that fuses the melodic ambition of power metal with thrash aggression. The band operates independently, releasing music through their Bandcamp page.
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