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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Damage, Inc. is a thrash metal and punk band from Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, named after the Metallica track and delivering high-energy, punk-inflected thrash since 2015. Their sound channels the aggression of both genres through the working-class grit of northern England.
Damagebrain is a death/thrash metal band from Ingolstadt, Germany, formed in 2024. They unleash a ferocious blend of death metal heaviness and thrash metal speed.
Hailing from Massapequa Park on Long Island, Damaged have been keeping the old-school thrash flame alive since 2014 with riff-driven, pit-ready material. Their approach is rooted in the classic East Coast thrash tradition, unpolished and uncompromising.
Damaged Reich is a thrash metal band from Oxford, England, formed in 2019. They deliver political thrash from the academic city.
Damageflag is a thrash metal band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, active since 2012. They deliver fierce thrash from the Northern Irish capital.
Groove metal from Dallas. Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul post-Pantera project.
Damager is a speed/thrash metal band from Lyon, France, formed in 2021. They play blistering speed/thrash from southeastern France.
Damas is a thrash/heavy metal band from Marseille, France, active since 2011. They deliver Mediterranean thrash and heavy metal from France's port city.
Los Angeles' Damascus grind out death/thrash metal with a West Coast ferocity that draws on both technical death metal precision and thrash's instinctive directness. Formed in 2011, they represent the harder-edged side of the LA underground.
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