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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Go Fast or Go Home is a crossover/hardcore/thrash metal band from Nottingham, formed in 2013. Their name-as-philosophy captures the high-velocity, no-compromise character of their crossover thrash from the East Midlands.
Go Go Ponies is a thrash metal band from Milan, formed in 2017. Their playful name contrasts with the aggressive thrash they deliver from the Lombard capital.
Goat Command were a black/thrash metal band from Constitución, Maule, Chile, active from 2010 to 2014 and released through the underground label Headbanging on the Pentagram. The band drew on the violent, chaotic energy typical of South American black/thrash, with lyrical themes centered on blood, violence, and rage.
Goat Cult is a blackened thrash/death metal act from Zebrak, Czech Republic, formed in 2021, fusing the speed of thrash with the darkness of black and death metal. The project channels a raw, bestial approach to extreme metal.
Massachusetts' Goat Thrower have been fusing thrash's kinetic urgency with black metal's frost-bitten atmosphere since 2008, producing a sound that's hard, fast, and genuinely hostile. One of the longer-running acts in this corner of the underground.
Goatborn is a German black/thrash metal project formed in 2021, combining the speed and riffing of thrash metal with black metal's dark atmosphere and vocal approach. The project operates at the crossroads of two of metal's most aggressive subgenres.
Goatfuck is a black/thrash metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2012, combining raw thrash aggression with black metal venom. The band brings over a decade of relentless black/thrash to the Leipzig scene.
Goatfyre is a thrash metal and crust punk band from Gothenburg, Sweden, active since 2019 and fusing thrash aggression with crust punk's raw energy. The project bridges two aggressive traditions from Sweden's metal capital.
California's Goathead blend groove metal's mid-tempo stomp with thrash's riff-driven energy and classic heavy metal hooks, resulting in music built for fists-in-the-air catharsis. Formed in 2020, they have a knack for making heaviness feel effortless.
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