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Cova was a death/thrash metal band from São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Brazil, active in the mid-2000s underground scene before splitting up. The band played aggressive extreme metal with themes centered on death, terror, and Satanism, in the tradition of the Brazilian extreme metal underground. They released demo material independently before disbanding.
Cova Raza is a thrash metal and crossover band from the Pouso Alegre and Borda da Mata area of Minas Gerais, Brazil, formed in 2015. The band operates independently and plays aggressive thrash with crossover hardcore influences, with lyrical themes covering death, violence, and social critique. They contributed a track to the Brazilian metal compilation "Sons de Guerra" on Roadie Metal (Vol. 13, 2019).
Fayetteville, Georgia's Covenant fuse groove metal's mid-tempo heaviness with thrash aggression and death metal bite. They operate in the tradition of mid-90s American metal, where crossover brutality was the defining characteristic.
Shreveport's Covenant deal in groove and thrash metal with a distinctly Southern backbone, built on heavy mid-tempo riffs and muscular song structures. Their sound fits comfortably alongside the hard-hitting regional tradition of Louisiana heavy music.
Heavy-thrash metal band from Istres in Provence, France, formed in 2021. They blend classic heavy metal with thrash aggression from the Bouches-du-Rhone.
Death-thrash metal band from Zurich, Switzerland, formed in 2024. They channel pandemic-era nihilism through a punishing blend of death metal brutality and thrash metal velocity.
Santa Rosa black metal outfit channeling bleak, atmospheric menace through raw production and unrelenting hostility. Their sound is sparse and suffocating, built on repetition and cold dissonance.
Portland oddity blending power metal bombast with doom weight and grindcore aggression in ways that shouldn't work but somehow do. Their catalog is unpredictable and deliberately genre-defiant.
Thrash metal band from the Rychvald/Ostrava area of Czech Republic, formed in 2021. They bring fast, punishing thrash energy from the industrial Silesian heartland.
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