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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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Thrash metal band from Santo André, Portugal, formed in 2025. Their approach delivers classic thrash from the Alentejo coast.
Raging Steel is a thrash metal band from Umeå, Sweden, active since 2010. Their discography includes 'Guilty As Charged,' 'Beyond The Perdition,' and a self-titled album, delivering aggressive Scandinavian thrash with mosh-ready intensity.
Raging War is a thrash metal band from Brusque and Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, formed in 2016 as the successor to Monster Truck, a group the members had run since 2005. Their self-titled debut album, recorded at Tobias Blues Studios in Brusque across 2016 and 2017, was released on June 6, 2018, and spans ten tracks including "Third World," "Enforced System," and "Bastard Dogs."
Raidon is a heavy/thrash metal band from Peterborough in Cambridgeshire, England, formed in 2014. The band delivers heavy-thrash from the cathedral city in the East of England.
Raiken is a melodic death and thrash metal band from Brasília active since at least 2019, with a lineup of Ricardo Leite on bass and vocals, Cristiano Marques and Leonardo Pacheco on guitars, and Daniel Neves on drums. Their five-track EP Shattered Shield, released on March 20, 2026, moves across melodic death metal, thrash, and epic heavy metal and was independently produced by the band.
Raise a Monument is a thrash and groove metal band from Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony in Germany, formed in 2024. The band fuses the speed of thrash with the rhythmic punch of groove metal as one of Hanover's newest metal acts.
Raise Cain is a crossover thrash/groove metal band from Trelleborg, Sweden, formed in 2013. The band fuses thrash metal aggression with groove-laden riffs and crossover punk energy from Sweden's southernmost city.
Amsterdam thrash metal act formed in 2018, delivering aggressive riffing from the Dutch capital. Their high-energy approach channels the relentless spirit of classic thrash.
Rajalla is a thrash metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2013. Named after the Finnish word for 'on the border,' the band delivers aggressive thrash from the Finnish capital.
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