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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 metal band from Jørpeland/Stavanger, Norway, formed in 2024. Their approach delivers rapid-fire thrash from the Norwegian oil capital region.
Rapid Dominance is a progressive death/thrash/groove metal band from Silkeborg in central Jutland, Denmark, active since 2012. The band merges progressive complexity with death, thrash, and groove metal from the Danish lake district.
Black/death/thrash metal band from Sanok in southeastern Poland, formed in 2025. Their triple-genre approach delivers unrelenting extreme metal from the Bieszczady Mountains foothills.
Thrash/groove metal band from Belgrade, Serbia, active since 2014. Their approach blends thrash velocity with groove metal's rhythmic punch from the Serbian capital.
Rapsöd is a thrash metal and crossover band from Jihlava in the Czech-Moravian Highlands, active since 2008 and blending thrash aggression with punk-infused crossover energy. The band contributes to the Vysočina Region's underground metal and punk scene.
Minneapolis's Raptor Claw arrived in 2014 with a black/thrash blueprint that channels both the savagery of first-wave black metal and the pit-ready drive of crossover thrash. In a city with a deep and diverse metal underground, they carve their niche through sheer velocity and cold riffing.
Raptores is a thrash metal band from Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, formed in 2010. They released their debut EP Forgotten Is Not Dead in September 2010 and followed it with the full-length Age of Fear in May 2012 on Genocidio Records, a ten-track album that incorporates thrash, death metal, and traditional heavy metal influences.
Ras el Satan is a thrash metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2023 and named after the Arabic astronomical term for the star Algol — the 'Demon's Head.' The band delivers aggressive thrash from the German capital's underground.
Thrash/speed metal band from Dobryanka, a small city in Russia's Perm region, formed in 2023. Their approach delivers high-velocity thrash from the Ural foothills.
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