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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Greek thrash metal band from Athens, delivering classic thrash aggression since 2013. Their medical name, referencing the shattering of stones, captures the crushing impact of their thrash.
British melodic death/thrash metal band from Brighton, blending harmonic sophistication with aggressive precision since 2011. Their approach layers melodic guitar work over a foundation of thrash and death metal intensity.
Spanish crossover/thrash metal band from Barcelona, fusing thrash aggression with crossover punk attitude since 2017. Their approach delivers mosh-ready intensity rooted in the Catalan underground.
Portland's Lividus pull from melodic death, progressive, and thrash metal, building technically ambitious compositions that reward close listening with layered, shifting dynamics.
Livin Garden was a heavy/thrash metal quartet from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, active from 2006 to around 2016, featuring Pablo Kravicz and Vinnie Lazzaretti on guitars, Gabriel Canoro on vocals, and Roberto Krug on drums. The band released two studio albums — "Where I Can Breathe" (2009) and "Bring It On" (2014, via Digmetalworld Records) — the latter supported by an extensive US tour of approximately fifty dates culminating in a filmed show at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles. Their sound blended hard rock, southern rock, and thrash influences with nods to Metallica and KISS.
Basque heavy/thrash metal band from Donostia-San Sebastian, formed in 2023 and delivering aggressive riffing with Basque attitude. Their sound bridges classic heavy metal power with thrash velocity.
Czech thrash/death metal band from Prague, delivering relentless aggression since 2006. As one of Prague's longer-running extreme acts, they channel two decades of thrash and death metal intensity into their punishing sound.
Lobotomia is a pioneering crossover thrash and hardcore band from São Paulo, founded in 1984, who helped define the early Brazilian punk-metal underground. Their 1987 self-titled LP introduced a raw, metallic sound unlike anything else in Brazilian punk at the time, and "Só os Mortos Não Reclamam" became a regular fixture on São Paulo's Radio Rock 89 FM. The band reunited in the mid-2000s and continued releasing material, including the albums "Extinção" (2008) and "Desastre" (2016).
London-based technical thrash metal band formed in 2022, pushing thrash metal's boundaries through technical precision. Their brain-surgery name signals the surgical, technically exacting character of their thrash.
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