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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
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Thrash metal band from Pilsen, Czech Republic, active since 2014. Their aggressive thrash channels the legacy of Czech speed and thrash metal from the home of Bohemian brewing and heavy music.
South Florida's Hanus emerged from Margate in 2024, bringing a death-thrash attack steeped in the Sunshine State's long tradition of extreme metal — fast, angry, and technically sharp.
Thrash metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2018. Their aggressive thrash channels the high-energy spirit of the genre from the Catalan capital.
Born in the devastating underground of Kerava, this death/thrash metal/hardcore act has delivered unflinching intensity since 2018. Their sound channels the genre's most crushing impulses through thunderous riffs.
Czech band from Brno formed in 2011, evolving from thrash/death metal origins into progressive rock and metal territory. This dramatic stylistic transformation demonstrates their restless creative ambition and refusal to be confined by genre boundaries.
Boston's Hara Kiri bring the crossover thrash tradition to one of America's great punk cities, their tightly coiled songs drawing equally from the ferocity of hardcore and the technical aggression of thrash since 2017.
Silicon Valley's Harass have been bringing thrash metal to Santa Clara since 2012, a Bay Area band working in the shadow of legends but doing it with enough aggression and conviction to carve their own space.
Winona, Minnesota's Harbinger blend groove and thrash metal into a mid-sized town sound with outsized bite, active since 2015 in a state with a fierce and underappreciated metal pedigree.
Lansing, Michigan's Harbinger race through heavy, speed, and thrash metal with relentless momentum since 2015, another act from the Great Lakes underground proving that the Midwest has always had the chops.
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