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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Head Takers is a groove/thrash/death metal band from La Queue-lez-Yvelines, France, formed in 2012. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Head:Stoned is a thrash metal band from Porto, Portugal, active since 2011 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
Headcrasher is a heavy/speed metal band from Cosenza, Italy, active since 2024 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
Headcrusher is a groove/thrash metal band from Strzelce Opolskie, Poland, formed in 2010. They blend thrash metal's velocity with groove metal's rhythmic punch.
Headfirst is a thrash metal band from Toulon, France, active since 2013 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
Headhaunter is a thrash metal band from Dordrecht, Netherlands, active since 2018 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
New York's Headless Eyes occupy an unusually broad corner of extreme metal, blending death, thrash, and traditional heavy metal into a sound that refuses easy categorization. Formed in 2020, they draw on the full timeline of heavy music and synthesize it into something with its own jagged shape.
Cleveland black/thrash outfit Headless Rats channel the rabid, scabrous energy of first-wave black metal and Motorhead-indebted punk thrash into a sound that's filthy and fast in equal measure. Since 2014 they've been a reliable source of dangerous, unpolished extremity from the Rust Belt.
Iowa's Headless Torso have been carving up the death/thrash intersection since 2007, delivering Valley Junction's brand of surgical riff dismemberment with unrelenting aggression. Their sound sits squarely in the tradition of technically brutal death metal seasoned with thrash's kinetic drive.
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