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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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Thrash and groove metal band from Latina, Italy, formed in 2015, delivering aggressive, patriotic metal from the Lazio region. They combine thrash velocity with groove metal's headbanging rhythms.
Thrash metal band from Ljubljana, Slovenia, formed in 2014, delivering over a decade of thrash metal from the Slovenian capital. They are dedicated practitioners of the thrash metal craft.
Thrash metal band from Brandenburg, Germany, formed in 2022, delivering aggressive thrash metal with irreverent attitude. They bring fast-paced riffing and headbanging energy to the Eastern German metal scene.
Pedo — the word is Spanish for 'fart,' and the name is entirely intentional — is a death/thrash metal and punk band from Neuquén, the capital of the Neuquén province in Patagonia, a city that has produced a surprisingly robust metal scene given its distance from the cultural centers of Buenos Aires and Córdoba. Formed in 2014 according to their current incarnation (with earlier activity noted on Metal Archives going back as far as 2007), the band plants themselves in the scatological, horror-inflected corner of extreme metal where bands treat shock value and black humor as legitimate artistic tools — a tradition running from the early grindcore scene through Brazilian death metal and into the Argentine underground. Their lyrical themes of feces, horror, and humor are not merely juvenile provocation but part of a coherent aesthetic that strips away any pretension from the genre, delivering death/thrash with a punk band's lack of concern for dignity or commercial palatability. Neuquén's metal scene has historically been tied to the broader Patagonian metal ecosystem — a region that developed its own distinct identity within Argentine metal, partly through isolation and partly through the influence of indigenous Mapuche cultural elements that some local bands have incorporated, though Pedo operate at the rawer, less ceremonial end of the spectrum. Their current on-hold status suggests the project has stalled without formally disbanding — a common state for underground bands in Argentina's interior, where life logistics and the difficulty of maintaining momentum in geographically isolated scenes often pause rather than end musical projects.
Death and thrash metal band from Gottingen, Germany, formed in 2019, named after the vitamin deficiency disease. They deliver punishing extreme metal from the university city in Lower Saxony.
Thrash metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, formed in 2025, bringing fresh thrash metal energy to Greece's second-largest city. They represent the newest generation of Greek thrash.
Mühlau's Polaris has been crafting traditional heavy metal since 2012, tapping into the same vein of classic metal that fuels the Swiss scene's traditionalist wing. Their small-town origins belie a polished sound that holds its own alongside the country's more established acts.
Death and thrash metal band from Surahammar, Sweden, formed in 2025, sharing their name with several iconic metal acts worldwide. They bring fresh death-thrash energy from the Vastmanland region.
Out of Kenosha since 2005, People Again channels the d-beat fury of crust punk through thrash metal's velocity, producing something rawboned and relentless.
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