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General Kroll are a crossover thrash band from Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, formed in 2015. Their seven-track Demo Ensayo 2015 was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Augusto Brasseur at Sala HUM in Rosario and released in June 2015, documenting an early sound built around fast, hardcore-inflected riffs and sardonic song titles.
Chicago's Generation weld industrial mechanics to thrash metal aggression, a combination that has attracted a loyal following in the city's underground since 2021. The result is confrontational and machine-driven, with enough groove to keep it from feeling purely mechanical.
Congers, New York's Generation Kill have been a reliable force in crossover thrash since 2011, playing music that inherits equally from punk velocity and classic metal riffing. Tight, aggressive, and always moving forward.
The name signals an attitude, and St. Petersburg, Florida's Generichrist backs it up with death/thrash metal that leans into aggression over ornamentation since 2015. Florida's death metal legacy runs deep here, filtered through a thrash metal lens.
Genesis Was Fake is a one-man crossover thrash project from Colmar, France, created by Kreaphil in 2020, addressing social themes across twelve tracks on the debut No Humans No Mistakes. The album blends crossover thrash with melodic elements across forty-five minutes of socially conscious extreme metal.
Genetic Disorder is a death/thrash metal band from Dusseldorf, Germany, formed in 2016, delivering aggressive, riff-driven extreme metal from the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area. The band combines death metal's brutality with thrash metal's speed and precision.
Grand Rapids, Michigan's Genetic Drift bring together groove metal, thrash, and metalcore in a way that prioritizes physical impact over genre purity since 2015. Heavy enough to satisfy headbangers, structured enough to keep it from descending into chaos.
Genetic Mutation is a thrash metal/crossover band from Moray in northeast Scotland, formed in 2021. They bring crossover thrash energy to the Scottish Highlands.
Genetik Blueprint is a thrash metal band from Falkirk in central Scotland, formed in 2021. They deliver fast-paced thrash from the industrial town between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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