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Proof (2024)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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A 2024 thrash-heavy metal hybrid from the Rieste-Osnabrück area, Power Surge channels the electric energy their name promises. Their Lower Saxon base in the Osnabrück region connects them to a quietly productive corner of the northern German metal scene.
Crossover thrash legends from Dallas. One of the most important heavy bands Texas ever produced. RIP Riley Gale.
Evolving from pure heavy metal into a heavier thrash-inflected sound, the Premnitz-Rathenow duo Powerage has been building momentum since 2017. Their Brandenburg origins in the former East German heartland add a gritty resilience to their increasingly aggressive approach.
Rendsburg's Powerhead fuses heavy, power, and thrash metal into a triple-pronged assault from the Schleswig-Holstein countryside since 2016. Their Kiel Canal-adjacent base provides an appropriately industrial setting for their high-octane approach.
San Antonio's Powerhouse brings a Texas-sized drive to the intersection of thrash and traditional heavy metal, formed in 2018 with a sound that wears its influences on its sleeve without apology. The city has always had a scrappier, working-class relationship with metal compared to the coastal scenes, and Powerhouse channels that — direct riffs, forceful delivery, and none of the pretension that sometimes creeps into the genre. Think Bay Area thrash energy filtered through a South Texas toughness.
Thrash metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2016, delivering sick thrash metal power from the Russian capital. They bring nearly a decade of aggressive riffing to Moscow's thrash scene.
San Bernardino's Powerthrone has been fusing thrash and black metal's most combative qualities since 2012, drawing from the Inland Empire's rough edges to produce something that sounds both sun-scorched and genuinely sinister. The blackened thrash formula here leans hard into speed and venom — riffs that flay rather than groove, with a coldness borrowed from Scandinavian black metal grafted onto the California thrash tradition. Over a decade in, they remain one of the Inland Empire's more committed extreme metal outfits.
Power and thrash metal band with hardcore influences from Guipavas, France, formed in 2008, delivering energetic crossover metal from Brittany. Their versatile approach blends power metal melody with thrash and hardcore aggression.
Sludge and thrash metal band from Banska Stiavnica, Slovakia, formed in 2014, whose Latin-style name twists 'peace be with you' into 'pox be with you.' Over a decade of diseased sludge-thrash from the historic mining town.
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