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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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When Kugurak emerged in 2021 from Arkhangelsk, they brought with them a sound rooted in black metal, speed metal, and thrash metal — all pre-thrash intensity with a melodic edge. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Thrash metal band from Gipuzkoa in the Basque Country, formed in 2018 and delivering high-speed aggression from the heart of Basque culture. Their sound channels the fierce independence of the Basque spirit through thrash metal.
Kultist is a black/thrash metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2014 and known for their conceptual approach rooted in the cosmic horror fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. Their 2019 debut album The Black Goat — featuring vocalist Dan Pacheco alongside a rhythm section of Yasmin Amaral (guitar), Karine Campanille (bass), and Letícia Figueiredo (drums) — weaves each of its eight tracks around a specific Lovecraftian entity.
Thrash/heavy metal band from Kouvola, formed in 2022 with a Finnish name meaning "king." Their regal name pairs with commanding thrash metal that channels royal authority through riff-driven aggression.
Thrash/groove/death metal band from Lempaala near Tampere, formed in 2025 with a Finnish name meaning "hand of death." Their triple-genre approach delivers lethal heaviness from the Pirkanmaa region.
Melodic death/thrash metal and metalcore band from Helsinki, active since 2012 and blending three aggressive styles across over a decade. Their Finnish name meaning "misery" or "wretchedness" captures the anguish underlying their melodic extremity.
Carson City, Nevada's Kut-Pile has been fusing thrash metal and metalcore since 2017 in the high desert of Nevada's capital. Their crossover approach has the bruising energy of the former and the rhythmic aggression of the latter, forged in a city that operates on the margins of both the music industry and the American West.
Death/thrash metal project from Finland, formed in 2017 with a Finnish name meaning "hot ones." Their sound delivers the searing heat implied by their name through aggressive death-thrash compositions.
Heavy/thrash metal band from Nemours south of Paris, formed in 2022 and channeling old-school thrash aggression with heavy metal muscle. Their sound draws from the classic thrash template with an emphasis on riff-driven intensity.
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