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MadBrain is a death/thrash metal act from Wuppertal, Germany, formed in 2022. Their sound combines death metal's brutality with thrash's velocity, emerging from the industrial Bergisches Land region of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Thrash metal with no fixed address, Madcap emerged in 2018 wielding the genre's core weapons — speed, aggression, and relentless riff momentum — without frills or compromise. Short, sharp, and built for volume.
Madcaps is a thrash metal act from the tiny Marchean town of Santa Vittoria in Matenano, active since 2014. The band delivers energetic thrash from one of central Italy's most improbably rural metal outposts.
Whiskey-soaked Southern / Groove Metal from Dallas/Newcastle.
Made By is a thrash metal act from the western Slovak city of Považská Bystrica, formed in 2022. The band delivers aggressive thrash from the Váh river valley.
Ripping Thrash / Death Metal from Spring/Houston.
Madhatter is a thrash metal band from Lehrte, Germany, active since 2012. Their sound channels the speed and aggression of classic thrash metal from the heart of Lower Saxony, a region steeped in German heavy metal tradition.
Madhouse is a thrash metal band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2019. Their sound delivers the aggressive, high-speed riffing that defines Hamburg's contribution to the Teutonic thrash metal tradition.
Madhouse is a thrash metal band from Rancagua, in Chile's O'Higgins Region, formed in 2019. The band operates independently within the active Chilean thrash metal underground, drawing on the aggressive traditions of the genre.
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