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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
05/09 @ Mr Smalls Theatre, Millvale
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Death, thrash, and grindcore crossover act from Pontevedra in Galicia, Spain, delivering a relentless fusion of extreme subgenres since 2021. Their sound combines the speed of grindcore with thrash and death metal's structural complexity.
Death and thrash metal band from Clusone in the Bergamo Alps of Italy, active since 2013. Their aggressive sound merges the ferocity of death metal with thrash's relentless speed from the alpine foothills of Lombardy.
Experimental atmospheric metal from Fort Worth. Early material explored avant-garde thrash territory. Releases on Visceral Circuitry Records.
Unangel is a death/thrash metal band from Uppsala, Sweden, exploring the fast and melodic road of thrashy death metal with a broad sonic palette ranging from brutal to technical. Their EPs Amongst Cowards and Drunk on Hate showcase versatility, including tracks sung in Swedish like Tre Dagar I Morker.
Death and thrash metal band from Bergerac in the Dordogne region of France, active since 2015. Their sound merges death and thrash metal into a potent combination of speed and heaviness from rural southwestern France.
Melodic death and thrash metal band from Hoogeveen in the northern Netherlands, active since 2019. Their sound bridges the melodic richness of Scandinavian death metal with thrash's relentless speed.
Metalcore and thrash metal band from Stavanger, Norway, active since 2008 with nearly two decades of experience. Their sound bridges metalcore's dynamic structures with thrash metal's aggressive speed.
Unbroken Bones was a crossover thrash and metal punk band from Izhevsk, Russia, who disbanded in 2016 with half the members continuing in Sadocid. Their sole album Global Theater on Drunk With Power Records delivers ten tracks of fast-paced, politically charged crossover thrash addressing conspiracy theories and societal critique.
Edwardsville, Illinois death-thrashers Unburied have been plowing through the American underground since 2006, fusing the morbid heaviness of old-school death metal with the kinetic aggression of thrash. No-frills and consistently bruising.
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