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Let You Go (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Halo (2017)
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Black, death, and thrash metal band from Lahti, Finland formed in 2016, featuring Swedish-language song titles despite their Finnish origins. Their catalog includes Dorn Jonner and Skojande Svenska, performing with a raw, uncompromising intensity.
Seattle's Elks Blood have been grinding out death/thrash since 2010 with the Pacific Northwest's characteristic intensity — unrelenting riff patterns, furious tempos, and a sound that owes equal debts to both parent genres.
Phoenix's Ellefson — fronted by former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson — channels old-school thrash and speed metal energy with the authority of someone who helped define the genre in the first place.
Dallas's Eloi blend groove metal's hip-swinging heaviness with thrash's aggression, a combination that fits the Texas tradition of metal that wants to move the room as much as destroy it.
Orlando thrash metal project from the Florida underground.
Progressive metal and thrash band from Auxerre, France formed in 1993, blending influences from Rush, Symphony X, and Dream Theater with thrash aggression from Overkill and Testament. Their extensive fantasy-themed catalog includes The Five Shires, The Call of the Black Dragon, and Mages Battle.
Death, melodic death, and thrash metal band from Staffordshire, England active since 2018. They deliver fierce, aggressive extreme metal from the West Midlands.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania's Elysion Fields have been working the thrash/groove intersection since 2011 — riffs with real momentum behind them, pushed forward by groove metal's locomotive sense of rhythm.
Pittsburgh's Emanon have been sharpening their speed and thrash attack since 2005, drawing on classic American aggression and razor-tight riffwork. The band moves with the propulsive urgency of old Bay Area thrash filtered through Steel City grit.
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