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Let You Go (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Halo (2017)
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Relentless Thrash Metal from Corpus Christi.
Suffocating Sight blend melodic thrash, death metal, and metalcore from the North Sea port of Cuxhaven, creating a multi-genre assault from the Lower Saxon coast. Formed in 2020, they bring asphyxiating intensity to the maritime metal scene.
Long Island, New York titans of brutal and technical death metal, Suffocation are widely regarded as one of the most influential bands in the genre's history, with seminal records like Effigy of the Forgotten helping define the sound of technical death metal in the early 1990s and beyond.
Carinthian thrash metal band from the Klopeiner See area, formed in 2022. Their aggressive thrash attack carries forward the genre's traditions of speed and fury from southern Austria's metal underground.
Connecticut band formed in 2025 that began with thrash metal influences and shifted toward a doom-oriented sound, exploring the heavier and slower end of the metal spectrum.
Suicide of Society play thrash metal from the Siegen-Wittgenstein district of North Rhine-Westphalia, channeling societal critique through aggressive compositions. Formed in 2020, they bring socially conscious thrash to the Sauerland region.
Suiciety is a thrash metal band from Fraser, Michigan, active since 1993 and rooted in the aggressive, speed-driven tradition of the genre.
Suiciety is a death/thrash metal band from East Brunswick, New Jersey, blending the brutality of death metal with the kinetic attack of thrash since their formation in 1993.
Hard-hitting Groove Metal / Metalcore from Dallas.
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