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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Nuclear Jeezus is a thrash metal band from Pleszew, Poland, active since 2018. Their provocatively respelled name adds irreverent humor to their thrash assault.
Nuclear Omnicide is a crossover thrash metal band from Kirkkonummi, Finland, blending thrash, death metal, and crossover aggression across releases like Bringers of Disease and their self-titled second album. Recorded at Suomenlinna Studios in Helsinki, their music delivers relentless, high-velocity metal.
Nuclear Revenge is a thrash/black metal band from Vitoria-Gasteiz, the capital of the Basque Country's Alava province, active since 2018. The band brings nuclear-level thrash aggression to the Basque interior.
Nuclear Salvation is a thrash metal band from Jönköping, Sweden, active since 2011. The band delivers relentless thrash metal fury from the Småland region.
Nuclear Screams traffic in a dense blend of death, thrash, speed, and melodic death metal that leans heavily on aggression without abandoning hooks. Their debut EP A Path to Endless Days arrived in November 2021, and the full-length Human Frailties followed in 2025, both recorded in Minas Gerais and showcasing a band comfortable moving between brutal riffing and more atmospheric passages.
Nuclear Simphony is a thrash metal band from the Favara/Palermo area of Sicily, Italy, active since 2013. Their deliberately misspelled name adds character to their high-energy thrash.
Nuclear Storm is a death/thrash metal band from Naila in Upper Franconia, active since 2004. Two decades of atomic-level extremity from the Bavarian-Thuringian border make them a fixture of the Franconian scene.
Nuclear Terror is a thrash metal band from Rickert in Schleswig-Holstein, active since 2022. The band brings devastating thrash to the northern German flatlands.
Nuclear Torment is a crossover thrash band from Nyköping, Sweden, active since 2009. One of the longer-running crossover acts in Sweden, the band fuses thrash metal aggression with hardcore punk energy.
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