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Thrash metal band from Montana, Bulgaria, active since 2013. They deliver fierce thrash metal from northwestern Bulgaria, a region better known for agriculture than extreme music.
Thrash metal band from Tarbes in the French Pyrenees, formed in 2014. They deliver aggressive thrash from the mountain foothills.
Plant City, Florida's Cirrhosis channel the corrosive energy of classic death/thrash into punishing modern form, bridging the raw aggression of the genre's Florida roots with thrash's speed and spite.
Death-thrash act from Smolensk, western Russia, active since 2014. Cist delivers aggressive extreme metal from the historic border city.
Philadelphia thrash unit Citadel bring a no-nonsense Northeastern aggression to their riff-forward attack, drawing on the old-school Bay Area and East Coast scenes. They play thrash as a blunt instrument.
Thrash metal band from Łódź, one of Poland's longer-running thrash acts with roots stretching back to 1997. Citizen Dick has spent nearly three decades delivering aggressive thrash from central Poland.
Cincinnati's Citizen X traffic in groove-driven thrash built on thick mid-paced riffs and a blue-collar Midwestern intensity. Their material locks hard into the pocket before erupting into fast-lane aggression.
Heavy and thrash metal band from Bruges, Belgium, active since 2016. They deliver hard-hitting traditional heavy metal fused with thrash aggression from the medieval streets of one of Flanders' most storied cities.
Columbus experimental black/thrash act Citranomicon approach genre boundaries as suggestions, welding cold tremolo-picked fury to unconventional structures and a genuinely strange sonic imagination. They resist easy categorization.
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