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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)
05/09 @ Mr Smalls Theatre, Millvale
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Lubbock's Heavens Final War have been fusing hardcore's rage with thrash metal's technical attack since 2015, creating a confrontational sound that fits right in with West Texas's no-nonsense ethos. Their crossover energy is blunt and unapologetic.
Death metal outfit from Cardiff, the Welsh capital, active since 2022. Named after a mythological hybrid creature, their sound delivers crushing death metal with monstrous intensity from the Welsh underground.
Death/thrash metal band from Canobbio, Switzerland, active since 2004. Their ferocious crossover of death and thrash metal has been a fixture of the Ticino metal scene for two decades.
Heavy Merda is a thrash metal/crossover, grindcore act from Italy, active since 2025 and delivering chaotic, ferocious bursts of extreme music at breakneck velocity. The project channels the genre's most frenzied and violent impulses.
Hebephrenic is a death/thrash metal band from Stoke-on-Trent, England, formed in 2012. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Madrid-based speed metal outfit active since 2013, one of the Spanish capital's most enduring metal acts. Their wall-like name matches a sound built on solid foundations of classic speed and heavy metal.
Hecatomb is a thrash metal band from Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom, active since 2020 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
Thrash/death metal band from Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, formed in 2020. Their name meaning 'Holocaust' in Greek, they channel devastating extremity from the sherry-producing heartland of Andalusia.
Portland, Oregon's Hectic Shock have been thrashing with blunt efficiency since 2016, drawing on the genre's classic mid-80s blueprint while operating in one of the country's most fertile underground metal scenes. Their music is direct, headlong, and disinterested in revision.
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