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Last Conscious are a death/thrash metal band from Santa Luzia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The band has released recordings including Psychological Torture, Damn Thoughts, and Political Loathing, drawing on the aggressive traditions of Brazilian extreme metal. Their lyrical content spans psychological and political themes.
Belgian melodic death/thrash metal act from Diepenbeek, active since 2005 under various names before settling as Last Funeral in 2004. Their sound merges melodic sensibility with thrash aggression across releases like 'Incipient Grim.'
Austin thrash dealers who have been delivering riff-driven punishment since 2018, channeling the Bay Area's bay-area fury through a distinctly Texas lens.
Queens-bred and uncompromising, Last Legion fuses black metal's icy hostility with death metal's brutality into a sound that feels like the borough's concrete compressed into sound.
Out of Benton City, Washington, Last Nerve blends groove metal's mid-tempo swagger with thrash's serrated edge — a band formed in 2021 with something to prove and the riffs to back it up.
Tampa's Last Rite has spent over a decade honing a sound that trades off power metal's anthemic sweep against thrash's razor-wire attack, rooted in Florida's storied heavy metal tradition.
Speed metal delivered at maximum velocity with a thrash backbone, Los Angeles' Last Rites have been tearing up the West Coast scene since 2002.
Conyers, Georgia's Last Rites bring a Southern-fried intensity to straight-ahead thrash metal, active since 2002 and showing no signs of slowing the onslaught.
Cumberland, Maryland's Last Rites drag thrash metal through the gutter with hardcore's stripped-down aggression, a rough and confrontational hybrid born in 2002.
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