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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Deaf Spoint is a heavy and thrash metal band from Warsaw, Poland, formed in 2019. The project blends classic heavy metal with thrash metal aggression.
Deafaid is a death metal, metalcore, and thrash metal band from Huskvarna, Sweden, formed in 2014. The project blends multiple extreme metal styles.
Deafness is a black and thrash metal band from Gdansk, Poland, formed in 2017. The project fuses black metal's rawness with thrash metal's velocity from the Baltic coast.
Deakin is a thrash/death metal band from Saarijärvi, Finland, formed in 2016. They play aggressive thrash/death from central Finland.
Deal with It is a thrash metal/crossover/hardcore band from Leeds, England, formed in 2023. They deliver no-nonsense crossover thrash from West Yorkshire.
DeaMantide is a groove and thrash metal band from San Demetrio Corone, in the Cosenza province of Calabria, Italy, formed in 2011. The project delivers crushing groove-laden thrash metal from the deep south of the Italian underground.
Lexington, Kentucky's Deanimator grind together death metal, thrash, and grindcore with economical brutality and no interest in genre purity since 2013. Short, fast, and built to destroy.
Arizona's Dearly Departed thrash hard with sun-baked aggression, taking classic genre templates and running them through the heat and grit of the desert Southwest since 2018. Fast, punishing, and uninterested in reinvention.
San Francisco's Death Angel are Bay Area thrash royalty, formed by Filipino-American teenagers in the mid-1980s and delivering some of the most technically ferocious and melodically sharp thrash records the scene ever produced. Decades on, they remain one of the style's most consistent forces.
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