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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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Damator is a thrash metal band from Zlin, Czech Republic, active since 2016 and delivering high-speed riffing rooted in the classic thrash metal tradition. Their sound channels the relentless energy and aggressive attack that define the genre's most visceral qualities.
Damn Youth is a thrash metal and crossover band from Caucaia, Ceará, Brazil, active since around 2013 and signed to UGH! Discos. The band debuted with the 2015 demo "Skate in Hell" and released their full-length album "Breathing Insanity" in 2018, a 13-track record praised for blending old-school thrash aggression with punk energy; they followed it with the album "Descends Into Disorder" in 2023.
Newnan, Georgia's Damnage have been delivering no-nonsense thrash metal since 2013, representing the South's thriving but underappreciated metal underground. Their music is built on the genre's foundational pillars: speed, aggression, and riffs that demand movement.
Damnas is a thrash metal band from London, England, active since 2008. They play fierce, riff-driven thrash from the British capital.
Damnatio is a heavy/thrash/alternative metal band from Baix Llobregat, Spain, formed in 2023. They blend thrash aggression with alternative metal's accessibility.
St. Louis' Damnation Army have been mobilizing a war on comfortable metal since 2004, merging thrash and groove metal's rhythmic punch with the blunt force of hardcore punk. Two decades in, they remain one of the Midwest's most combative and dependable underground acts.
Damnation Gallery storms out of Genoa with a caustic blend of heavy and blackened thrash metal, marrying the galloping riffs of traditional heavy metal with the venom and velocity of black-thrash. Their sound sits at the crossroads of NWOBHM worship and first-wave black metal ferocity.
Los Angeles' Damnation Overthrowne emerged in 2026 at the raw, energetic overlap of thrash and traditional heavy metal, channeling the street-level urgency of the LA metal scene into a sound that honors its predecessors without merely imitating them.
Damnatör is a black/thrash metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2014. They deliver blistering black/thrash from the Finnish capital.
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