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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Thrash metal band from Letojanni near Messina, Sicily, active since 2013. Carboncoke delivers sharp, no-frills thrash riffing from the Sicilian coast.
Progressive groove-thrash metal band from Le Havre, France, formed in 2021. They blend progressive complexity with heavy grooves and thrash aggression from the Norman port city.
Thrash metal band from Nantes, France, formed in 2015. They deliver aggressive, riff-driven thrash from the Loire-Atlantique capital.
Carbonizer was a thrash metal band from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, formed in 2013 and active until around 2017. The four-piece independent act released the EP "Nuclear Moon" in May 2016, delivering a raw, aggressive sound rooted in classic thrash with lyrical themes covering religion, violence, and war.
Carcará is a thrash metal band from Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, tracing their origins to 2007 under the banner "Horda Carcará." The independent act plays infernal thrash metal rooted in the aggressive 1980s tradition of heavy, thrash, and death metal, and has been an active presence in Fortaleza's underground metal scene.
Death-thrash act from Balatonfűzfő, Hungary, active since 2000. Carcharias — named after the great white shark genus — has been a fixture of the Hungarian extreme metal scene for over two decades.
Virginia Beach death metal band formed in 1993 whose sole demo, Abysmal Abattoir, remains their only documented output before the group dissolved.
Long Island, New York thrash/death metal band formed around 2009, dealing in themes of insanity, disease, and violence before splitting up.
Death metal, grindcore, and thrash metal band from Annaberg-Buchholz in the Erzgebirge mountains, Germany, formed in 2015. They deliver a relentless blend of grinding blasts and thrash-infused death metal.
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