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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Louisville, Kentucky outfit blending groove and thrash metal with experimental tendencies that push their sound into genuinely unpredictable territory. Their compositions carry Kentucky's heavy underground spirit while defying easy categorization.
Cranial Crusher is a thrash/crossover punk trio from São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Brazil, active since around 2010. The band blends thrash metal with crust punk and hardcore, and has released the EPs "Necrópole" (2016) and "Putrefakt" (2018), along with their debut full-length "Ciclo da Degradação" in 2023.
Maywood, New Jersey act cutting across death metal, groove metal, and thrash with a sound built on rhythmic force and density. Their material hits with a blunt, physical impact.
Green Bay, Wisconsin outfit blending progressive and technical ambition with death and thrash aggression. Their sound carries a Midwest workmanlike quality — precise, heavy, and built to last.
Washington state act cutting across black metal, heavy metal, and thrash with a sound rooted in classic metal aggression and underground spirit. Grimy, fast, and deliberately old-school in approach.
Heavy metal, thrash metal, and hard rock band from the Retie/Mol area of Belgium, formed in 2025. They bring a raw blend of classic heavy metal power with thrash aggression and hard rock swagger from the Kempen region.
Thrash metal band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2020. They deliver fast, aggressive thrash from the Hanseatic port city.
Progressive groove-thrash act from Moscow, active since 2014. Crash Atlantic blends technical complexity with aggressive metal from the Russian capital.
Doom-thrash metal band from Forssa, Finland, active since 2013. They blend the crushing weight of doom with thrash metal speed.
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