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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Zagreb death/thrash metal act formed in 2007, whose lengthy Croatian name translates roughly to 'Corporal Skull and the Death Squad,' matching their punishing blend of death and thrash metal aggression. Their nearly two decades of activity have established them in Croatia's underground.
Washington State's Narrow Grave has been sharpening its thrash metal edge since 2014, drawing on the Pacific Northwest's harder, less-celebrated underground. Tight riffing and a hostile urgency define their approach.
Elizabethtown, Kentucky's Narthex takes its name from church architecture and fills that sacred space with corrosive black metal since 2012. There's a theological tension in the project — reverence and blasphemy occupying the same room.
Nasca is a thrash metal band from Debrecen, Hungary, formed in 2023. They bring aggressive thrash energy from Hungary's second-largest city in the Great Plains.
Nashira is a heavy/thrash metal band from Salamanca, active since 2016. The band delivers classic metal from the historic university city of western Spain.
Nastik is a death/thrash metal band from Quilicura, Chile, playing a groove-heavy style they label brutal groove death metal. The band released two albums simultaneously in July 2018 — Human Sacrifice, built around fictional narratives of lost civilizations and ritual sacrifice, and GNOSTIC, exploring ancient mythology and esoteric philosophy through tracks referencing Egyptian and indigenous traditions. Both records are self-released digital albums available on the band's Bandcamp page.
Nastir is a black/thrash metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, active since 1995. As one of the longer-running extreme metal acts in northern Greece, they have spent three decades delivering aggressive blackened thrash.
Brandon, Florida's Nasty Savage are one of the unsung survivors of the American metal underground, plying power-speed-thrash since 1985 with an eccentric theatricality that's always set them apart. Four decades in, the band still commands a rabid cult following.
National Disaster is a thrash metal and crossover band from Lower Saxony, active since 2006. Nearly two decades of moshing fury have made the band a fixture in the northern German thrash and crossover scene.
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