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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Thrash metal band from Thun, Switzerland, active since 2015. Their relentless riffing and high-energy delivery keep the Swiss thrash tradition alive from the foothills of the Bernese Alps.
Thrash metal band from Aarhus, Denmark, active since 2008. Nearly two decades of thrash metal intensity make them one of the more established acts in the Danish thrash scene.
A relentless thrash/death/black metal entity from Stoke-on-Trent, contributing to the british underground since 2019. Cold atmospheres and venomous vocals define their particular approach to the genre.
Crushing Heavy / Groove Metal / Hard Rock out of Texas.
Hellflight is a heavy and thrash metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2016. The band released early recordings as Demos 01 and issued the single Mosh Pit Kerosene, establishing themselves as part of the independent São Paulo metal underground.
Death/thrash metal band from Kassel, Germany, active since 2011. Their punishing crossover of death and thrash metal delivers relentless extremity from the heart of Hesse.
Hellfound is a groove/death/thrash metal band from Zhytomyr, Ukraine, formed in 2017. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Hellfuck is a speed/thrash metal band from Poland, active since 2019 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
San Diego's HellFynder fuses the reckless velocity of black/thrash metal into an unrelenting attack since 2020, taking equal inspiration from the second wave and the first-wave speed merchants. They are lean, aggressive, and direct — genre devotees with fangs intact.
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