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Boston's Death Strider hit like a cargo train loaded with 1986-era riffs — crossover thrash with genuine menace and a hardcore backbone that keeps it moving fast. Formed in 2022, they arrived fully formed.
Death Thrashers Kuopio is a death/thrash metal band from Kuopio, Finland, formed in 2016. They carry their city's name proudly through ferocious death/thrash.
San Antonio's Death Tripper deal in pure high-octane speed and thrash metal — the kind that sounds like it was written on a stretch of empty Texas highway at 3 a.m. with no destination in mind. They've been burning rubber since 2011.
Death Whistle is a death, symphonic, and thrash metal band from Como, Italy, formed in 2020. The project merges death metal brutality with symphonic arrangements and thrash metal velocity in an ambitious Italian extreme metal blend.
Deathadorn is a death/thrash metal band from Les Houches, France, formed in 2018. They deliver extreme metal from the shadow of Mont Blanc.
Deathalation is a thrash/groove metal band from Bochum, Germany, formed in 2015. They hammer out groovy, aggressive thrash from the heart of the Ruhr region.
New York's Deathalizer play thrash metal with the blunt efficiency of a scene that's always had something to prove — riff-forward, aggressive, and uninterested in compromise since 2020.
Boston's Deathamphetamine have been splicing death and thrash metal into a single hyperactive organism since 2004, their two-decade tenure making them one of the longer-running acts in the city's underground. The name tells you everything about the tempo.
Deathawaits is a death/thrash metal and deathcore band from Lyon, France, active since 2011. They merge death/thrash with deathcore from southeastern France.
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