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My Torment is a thrash metal act from the UK, formed in 2025. The band delivers aggressive, emotionally charged thrash metal with a focus on personal turmoil and psychological themes.
A one-man or small-unit project from West Hazleton, Pennsylvania, Myke Owns has been blending the thrashing velocity of thrash metal with death metal's low-tuned malice since 2014, operating deep in the Pennsylvania underground.
Detroit thrash act Mykronian has been honing a sharp, riff-driven sound since 2018, pulling from the classic American thrash tradition with the blue-collar intensity that has long defined heavy music coming out of Michigan's Motor City.
Mynded is a thrash metal band from the Straubing-Munich area of Germany, formed in 2015, choosing their unique name to stand apart from convention. Their releases including Dead End Paradise and The Last Sun deliver thrash metal with a distinctive identity forged outside the mainstream.
Based in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, this Myrmidon started as a thrash metal act before evolving toward death metal, tracing a trajectory from aggressive, riff-forward speed to heavier, more brutally refined territory since their 2023 formation.
Myrtal is a death, thrash metal, and hardcore band from Brighton and Hove, England, formed in 2024. They blend extreme metal styles with hardcore energy.
Niles, Michigan's Mysophilia take the blackened thrash approach: vicious riffing informed by the second wave's rawness combined with the velocity and aggression of old-school thrash, producing a scrappy, venomous sound since their 2012 formation.
Mystical Vision play straight-ahead thrash metal rooted firmly in the old-school tradition, with their 2016 album Alchemy of Chaos showcasing tight, aggressive riffing driven by guitarists Carlos Mota and Silas Pimenta alongside the vocals and bass of Marcelo Sanches. A later release, A First Vision of Hell, continued the band's commitment to classic thrash sounds produced at GHM Studios in Manaus.
Cleveland, Ohio's Mystik formed in 2018 and blend power and thrash metal into a high-energy combination — the melodic ambition and vocal hooks of power metal fused with the speed and aggression of thrash, giving their music a driving, hook-laden intensity.
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