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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
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
Featured Grindcore Album
The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Progressive/Power/Thrash Metal force from Udine, thunderous and relentless since 1993. Their thrash assault combines speed, aggression, and precision in equal measure.
Fresno's Hands That Kill arrived in 2025 swinging a chaotic three-way hybrid of death metal, thrash, and grindcore — short, fast, and built to draw blood from the first second.
Thrash metal/hardcore band from Rostock, Germany, active since 2013. Their aggressive crossover brings the raw energy of hardcore punk to thrash metal's speed-driven assault from the Baltic coast.
Drawing from Norrköping's metal heritage, this heavy/thrash metal outfit channels fierce energy since 2015. Drawing on both Bay Area and Teutonic thrash, they deliver relentless aggression.
Hang the Traitor is a death/thrash metal band from Lisbon, Portugal, formed in 2013. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Thrash metal/hardcore band from Jena, Germany, active since 2003. With over two decades of experience, they are veterans of the Thuringian crossover scene, merging thrash velocity with hardcore intensity.
Painesville, Ohio's Hangnail have been grinding away since 1998, their thrash and grindcore roots keeping them lean and mean across nearly three decades of relentless, no-frills extremity.
Hanky-Panky is a stoner/thrash metal/punk band from Calais, France, active since 2015 and delivering fuzz-laden, groove-heavy riffs through a haze of overdriven amplification. The project channels the riff-worshipping spirit of the genre.
Hannibal is a heavy/groove/thrash metal band from Le Poiré-sur-Vie, France, formed in 2020. They blend thrash metal's velocity with groove metal's rhythmic punch.
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