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Let You Go (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Halo (2017)
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Melodic death-thrash metal band from London, formed in 2022. They blend melodic death metal with thrash speed from the English capital.
Thrash metal band from Orleans, France, formed in 2019. They deliver aggressive thrash from the Loire Valley capital.
Doom-heavy-thrash act from Porto, active since 2016. Cycles blends crushing doom with heavy and thrash metal elements from northern Portugal.
Death-thrash metal band from Prerov, Czech Republic, formed in 2019. They merge the technical intensity of death metal with the speed-driven assault of thrash.
Thrash metal band from Vilvoorde, Belgium, active since 2022. They carry forward the legacy of Belgian thrash in the Flemish Brabant region with ferocious, high-speed riffing.
Los Angeles crossover thrash and hardcore band blending the velocity of thrash metal with the aggression and attitude of hardcore punk. Cycotic Youth channels Southern California's storied crossover tradition with raw, energetic ferocity.
Razor-sharp Melodic Death / Thrash Metal from Dallas.
Death-thrash band from Poznań, formed in 2018. Cyklon — Polish spelling of 'cyclone' — delivers destructive extreme metal from Greater Poland.
Metalcore and thrash band from Chichester, England, active since 2004. With two decades of activity, they blend metalcore with thrash from the West Sussex cathedral city.
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