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Proof (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Thrash metal band from Igualada near Barcelona, Spain, active since 2021. They deliver high-energy, riff-driven thrash from the Catalan interior.
Cristo is a groove/death/thrash metal band from Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina, formed in 2023. The band released a self-titled EP available on their Bandcamp page, carving out a heavy, riff-driven sound within the Córdoba metal scene.
Intense Southern / Groove Metal / Metalcore from Austin.
Grind-thrash act from Stella Santa Giustina in Savona province, Liguria, formed in 2019. Critical Condition fuses grindcore intensity with thrash metal riffing from the Ligurian hills.
Thrash metal band from Bergamo, Lombardy, formed in 2025. Critical Damage brings fresh thrash energy to the Italian scene.
Technical death-thrash act from Moscow, formed in 2019. Critical Extravasation — a medical term for bleeding — delivers precise, technically demanding extreme metal.
Critical Fear is a thrash metal band from Iracemápolis, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2008–2009. Signed to Thrash or Death Records, the band focuses on political and social themes and has released multiple records including Conflicts (2011), Alone (2016), and A Real Danger (2022).
Thrash metal band from Węgrów in eastern Masovia, active since 2013. Critical Insanity has spent over a decade delivering aggressive thrash from the Polish countryside.
Thrash metal band from Orleans, France, formed in 2020. They deliver aggressive thrash from the Loire Valley capital.
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