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Divine (2024)
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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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Crafting their sound since 2012, this Umeå Thrash Metal outfit delivers breakneck tempos and razor-sharp riff attacks. Their place within the Gothenburg school's homeland speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Death/thrash metal band from Paris, France active since 2016. They deliver fierce extreme metal from the French capital.
Milanese thrash metal veterans who have evolved from their early thrash origins into groove metal territory across their career starting in the early '90s. Their stylistic evolution mirrors the broader metal scene's shift from pure thrash toward heavier, more rhythmically focused approaches.
Extremauncion is a groove and thrash metal band from Clorinda, in the northern Argentine province of Formosa, a region with a small but active metal scene anchored by events such as the Clorinda Rock Metal Fest. The band's recorded output includes the demo Corre o muere, documented in the Encyclopaedia Metallum, and further releases catalogued on Discogs. Their city of origin, Clorinda, sits on the Paraguayan border, giving the band one of the more geographically remote bases in the Argentine metal underground.
Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels death metal and thrash metal with a focus on labyrinthine song structures built on chromatic riff mazes. Formed in 1995, based in Bologna, the focus remains squarely on devastating rhythmic impact.
Albuquerque's Extremist have been forging death/thrash metal in the New Mexico desert since 2014, where isolation seems to breed a particular kind of ferocity. Their music straddles the grinding brutality of death metal and the galloping momentum of thrash, built for the headbang and the mosh in equal measure.
Thrash metal band from Mazyr, Belarus, delivering high-speed aggression from the southeastern corner of the country since 2012. Their industrial-sounding name reflects a mechanical, relentless approach to thrash metal riffing.
Underground to the core, this thrash metal act from Zamość traffics in crossover-tinged fury with punk's directness and metal's complexity. Since 2022, they've built a catalog that reflects Poland's relentlessly productive underground.
A product of Italy's deep-rooted extreme metal underground, this Udine-based groove metal and thrash metal act channels mosh-pit-inducing aggression with tightly wound precision. Active since 1998, the tempo rarely drops below neck-breaking speed.
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