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Chicago black and thrash metal band fusing the icy venom of black metal with thrash's speed and sharpness. Creepshow brings a dark, aggressive edge to the already ferocious Chicago metal underground.
Grasonville, Maryland thrash metal band channeling classic East Coast aggression and speed in a straightforward, hard-hitting format. Creepshow MD keeps the spirit of traditional thrash alive on the Chesapeake.
Crehate is an independent thrash metal band from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, listed on the Metal Archives and active under the name Born CreHate. The band plays thrash metal with lyrical themes centered on war, politics, and social issues.
Minnesota's Cremated blast through brutal death metal and grindcore with relentless speed and gory low-end punishment. The Lakeville act grinds bones to powder with blastbeats and cavernous downtuned savagery.
Death-thrash act from Wałbrzych in Lower Silesia, active since 2009. Cremathory has delivered over fifteen years of aggressive extreme metal from the Sudeten mountain region.
Monterey, California's Cremation brought a Bay Area-adjacent thrash sensibility to their aggressive early output. Their sound sits firmly in the speed and aggression of the West Coast thrash underground.
New Jersey's Cremation combined the crunch of death metal with the speed and attitude of thrash in the tradition of the tri-state area underground. Secaucus-based and unrelenting, they drew from both worlds without compromise.
Minnesota's Cremation fused death metal brutality with thrash metal aggression from within the Twin Cities underground scene. Their music reflected the raw, no-frills extremity of the Upper Midwest metal community.
Cremation Pyre is a three-piece thrash/black/death metal band from Santiago, Chile, active since the late 2010s. The band recorded their rehearsal session "The Flame Begins" in 2018 and followed it with their self-titled EP in September 2019, which was recorded and mixed by B. Barrantes at Necrotic Studios, featuring original material alongside a cover of Schizo's "Electric Shock".
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