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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
Featured Power Metal Album
No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Charleston, SC's Coffin Slide tear through crossover thrash with a hardcore bite, mixing pit-ready riffs and short, punishing songs that sit at the intersection of thrash aggression and punk velocity.
Minneapolis's Cognitive Dissonance ride a thrash and grindcore collision course — tightly wound songs explode with short-fuse aggression and a political edge that has defined their underground run.
Groove-thrash metal band from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2021. They combine heavy rhythmic grooves with thrash metal speed and aggression.
Punishing Industrial / Groove Metal out of Texas.
Heavy and thrash metal band from Basel, Switzerland, formed in 2021. They combine the classic power of heavy metal with the sharp, aggressive edge of thrash.
Los Angeles thrash veterans Cold Blood bring old-school precision and aggression to their work, channeling the Bay Area tradition through SoCal intensity in riff-forward, no-frills thrash metal.
Denver's Cold Moon fuses thrash aggression with death metal heaviness under the shadow of the Rockies, delivering blunt, no-frills metal that draws from the classic American tradition without apology.
Carbondale, Illinois' Cold Realm channels the aggression of crossover thrash with d-beat momentum and metal riffing — a lean, working-class attack from the collar-counties of southern Illinois.
Thrash metal band from Fredrikstad, southeastern Norway, formed in 2019. Cold Response delivers aggressive thrash from the Østfold region.
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