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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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Death-thrash act from Nijmegen, formed in 2021. Comitatus — Latin for 'retinue' — delivers aggressive extreme metal from the oldest city in the Netherlands.
Bowling Green, Kentucky's Commander thrash with the no-nonsense aggression and riff-first mentality of the classic American scene. Solidly constructed and direct, they keep the Midwest's thrash tradition alive.
Thrash metal band from Krefeld, Germany, formed in 2021. They deliver aggressive, riff-driven thrash from the left bank of the Lower Rhine.
Forest Lake, Minnesota's Compassion Dies blend the technical ambition of progressive metal with the aggression of thrash, crafting songs that shift between intricate riff architecture and high-velocity punishment.
Dutch thrash metal band formed in 2013. Complication delivers raw, no-frills thrash aggression.
Death-thrash act from Italy, formed in 2023. Compound 8 delivers aggressive extreme metal combining death and thrash elements.
Death-thrash metal band from Hildesheim, Germany, formed in 2017. They merge death metal brutality with thrash metal speed from the Lower Saxon foothills.
Death-thrash band from Płock in central Poland, active since 2014. Concatenation channels aggressive extreme metal from the Vistula River city.
Pleasant Hill, California's Concealed meld groove metal's mid-tempo swagger with nu metal's heavy atmosphere and occasional thrash bite, landing in the aggressive pocket of late-90s Bay Area heaviness.
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