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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Benicia, California's Ebola is a technical death/thrash outfit formed in 2016, the kind of band that treats musical precision and unrelenting aggression as two sides of the same coin.
Emerging from Maresso di Missaglia (Lecco), this Italian act forges Death Metal and Thrash Metal built on Florida-school brutality with modern precision. The riffs hit with blunt-force trauma, leaving no room for subtlety.
Death, progressive, and thrash metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece active since 2006. Named after the mythological monster, they deliver technically proficient extreme metal from Greece's second city.
A very young Portland band that launched in 2023 armed with a black/death/thrash collision — Echoes of Hell leans into the uglier, more chaotic edges of all three traditions.
Death/thrash metal band with groove influences from Breda, Netherlands active since 2012. Their sound fuses death metal's heaviness with thrash speed and groove metal's rhythmic weight from North Brabant.
Death/thrash metal band from Oulu in northern Finland, active since 2015. They deliver scorching extreme metal from above the 65th parallel.
Massive Epic Crust / Doom / Thrash Metal out of Texas.
Heavy metal and thrash band from Kozani in northern Greece, formed in 2023. They bring aggressive metal from the Macedonian highlands.
Straddling the line between groove metal and thrash metal, this Dutch actfrom Utrecht fuses Bay Area velocity married to Teutonic heaviness into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2020, and circle-pit fuel delivered with workmanlike consistency.
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