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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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Formed in 2024 in Coventry, Rhode Island, Calling the Eternal meld groove and thrash metal with metalcore tendencies into a hard-hitting, contemporary hybrid sound.
Groove-thrash act from Zoetermeer, South Holland, formed in 2026. Callous Intent represents the newest wave of Dutch thrash metal.
Thrash metal band from Marysville, Washington, Calloused started in 1994 before eventually changing their name, leaving a modest footprint in the Pacific Northwest underground.
Groove-thrash metal band from Barnsley, England, formed in 2017. They combine heavy grooves with thrash speed from the South Yorkshire coalfields.
A black metal band based in Brooklyn, New York, Calvaria have been active since 2022, carving out their place in the city's underground extreme metal community.
Georgia-based black metal act Calvary are a nascent underground project still building their catalog and identity within the extreme metal underground.
Death-thrash act from Szczecin in northwestern Poland, formed in 2025. Calyptra brings fresh extreme metal energy to the Pomeranian scene.
Death-thrash metal band from the Grand Est region, France, formed in 2019. They merge death metal aggression with thrash speed from eastern France.
Death metal, thrash, and metalcore act from Virneburg, Germany, formed in 2019. They channel a genre-crossing assault from the rural Eifel region of Rhineland-Palatinate.
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