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Let You Go (2024)
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Thrash metal band from Toledo in central Spain, formed in 2018 and channeling the historic city's warrior heritage into high-speed aggression. Their chaotic-existence name matches the turbulent energy of their thrash metal.
The Dutch city of Utrecht / South Holland serves as headquarters for this death metal and thrash metal operation, whose arsenal includes suffocating heaviness anchored by rumbling low-end. Each release doubles down on cavernous production and churning tremolo work.
Hardcore/death/thrash metal band from Colmar in Alsace, active since 2016 and merging three aggressive styles into a volatile blend. Their chasm-referencing name captures the abyss-like depth of their genre-crossing extremity.
Houston's Khepera weave progressive ambition through death and thrash metal, drawing on the technical flair of their city's storied extreme metal scene. Their sound rewards patience — dense arrangements that reveal new details on repeated listens.
Death/thrash metal band from Helsinki, formed in 2017 and fusing death metal's guttural power with thrash's relentless speed. Their sound contributes to the Finnish capital's diverse extreme metal scene.
Part of Poland's relentlessly productive underground, this act channels death metal and thrash metal with a focus on guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Formed in 2016, based in Zawiercie, expect nothing but full-bore death metal savagery.
Death/thrash metal and metalcore band from Besancon in eastern France, active since 2015 and blending three aggressive styles. Their name adds a mysterious, otherworldly quality to their genre-crossing extremity.
Thrash/death metal band from Paris, formed in 2019 and channeling chaotic aggression from the French capital. Their chaos theory name reflects the calculated disorder at the heart of their extreme metal.
Melodic death/thrash/groove metal band from Hyvinkaa in southern Finland, formed in 2018 and blending three styles into a versatile, heavy sound. Their multi-genre approach draws from the full spectrum of Finnish melodic metal.
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