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Necrofactor is a death/thrash metal band from Chile playing a groove-driven style they describe as groove thrash. The band released the full-length Ciclo de Destrucción in November 2016, an eleven-track independent album with Spanish-language lyrics exploring themes of destruction, illness, and political defiance. The record is distributed digitally on major platforms and was stocked physically through Chilean metal label Australis Records.
Necrofag is a Black/Thrash Metal band from La Calera, Cundinamarca, Colombia, formed in 2013. The band released their debut full-length "Blood Upon Us" in 2020, following it with the "Pentagram Attack" EP on Hellforced, with lyrical themes exploring warfare, misanthropy, and the violent history of human civilization.
Death/thrash metal act originating from the microstate of San Marino and extending to nearby Verucchio in Rimini, formed in 2019. Their extreme output represents one of the few metal acts from the world's oldest republic.
Founded in 1994, Necrofobia are among the most enduring thrash metal acts to emerge from São Paulo state's interior, drawing on the crunch of Sepultura and Slayer without ever losing their own identity. Their debut full-length "Dead Soul" arrived in 2004 after a decade of grinding development, and they returned 15 years later with "Membership" (2019), which included the tribute track "Guzzardi" honoring their late guitarist Raphael Guzzardi.
Formed in 2016 by veterans drawn from bands including Nuclëar Fröst and Whipstriker, Necrogosto are devoted to the savage black/thrash sound of late-1980s Brazil — Sarcófago, Sextrash, and Holocausto are the obvious touchstones. Their self-titled 2017 demo, recorded on analogue equipment at Caffeine Sound Studio, was followed by the "Ancestral Bestiality" EP (2020) and the "Sudakaos" EP (2023) via Nuclear War Now! Productions and Black Hearts Records, with the latter including a cover of the Insulter/Sextrash classic "Black Church."
Necroheresy is a death/thrash metal band from Bratislava, Slovakia, active since 2015. The band combines death and thrash metal intensity from the Slovak capital.
Necrokinesis is a death/thrash metal band from Carlow, Ireland, active since 2020. They deliver aggressive extremity from this small southeastern Irish town.
Stockholm black/thrash metal act formed in 2014, fusing atmospheric intensity with thrash velocity from Sweden's capital. Their crossover approach channels the raw energy of both traditions.
Necrology is a thrash metal band from Telfs, Austria, established in 2025 as one of the country's newest entrants to the Tyrolean metal scene. The band brings old-school thrash aggression to western Austria's alpine region.
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