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AntiFragile (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Asheville's Lord of Diamonds blend thrash riffs, metalcore crunch, and death 'n' roll swagger into a rowdy, genre-defiant attack shaped by the mountains of western North Carolina.
Ukrainian thrash/groove metal and hardcore band from Poltava, merging multiple aggressive styles since 2009. Their long-running career spanning over a decade and a half marks them as veterans of the Poltava underground.
Swedish death/thrash metal band from Linkoping, delivering relentless aggression since 2012. Their Spanish name, meaning 'the nameless,' adds an air of mystery to their extreme metal assault.
Los Últimos Días are a Buenos Aires metal band formed in 2017, releasing a self-titled four-track debut that same year, recorded and mixed by Esteban Andrés Miranda at LST Studio in the Flores neighborhood of Buenos Aires. The trio features Juan Manuel Pasam on guitars and synthesizers, Rocío Rodríguez on bass, and Pablo Nuñez Galardo on drums. The band blends death metal, thrash, and punk influences in a raw underground style.
Spanish thrash metal band from Cambre, delivering raw thrash aggression since 2022. Their sound channels the genre's essential speed and fury through the Galician underground.
Los Angeles doom metal act Lost Breed returned in 2025 after years away, dragging their slow, suffocating heaviness back into the light with zero urgency and maximum weight.
German progressive thrash metal band from Dusseldorf, blending technical complexity with thrash ferocity since 2008. Their long-running approach pushes thrash metal's boundaries through progressive structures and intricate arrangements.
Italian thrash metal band from Modena, delivering classic thrash aggression since 2018. Their name evokes the abandoned, searching quality beneath their thrash metal's fierce exterior.
Swedish industrial/thrash metal band from Uppsala, merging mechanical rhythms with thrash aggression since 2016. Their approach fuses industrial metal's cold precision with thrash's raw fury.
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