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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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Thrash metal band from Wroclaw, Poland, emerging in 2023 with a sound rooted in classic thrash aggression. Their Lower Silesian origins place them within one of Poland's most active metal communities.
Groove and thrash metal band from Zielona Gora, Poland, active since 2022. Their sound combines groove metal's rhythmic punch with thrash's aggressive speed.
Death and thrash metal band from Korsor, Denmark, merging the velocity of thrash with death metal's brutality since 2019. Their Danish approach to the death-thrash crossover brings Scandinavian sensibility to a style rooted in extreme aggression.
Death and thrash metal band from Castellon de la Plana, Spain, active since 2010 with six albums to their name. Their recent albums including White Silence and Devotion were mastered by Dan Swano at Endarker Studios in Sweden, recorded at their local Rocketes Studios.
Death and thrash metal band from London, England, emerging in 2024 with a sound that fuses both genres' aggressive qualities. Their approach combines the speed and riff-driven energy of thrash with death metal's guttural intensity.
Thrash and death metal band from Kuopio, Finland, delivering blade-sharp aggression since 2015. Their sound fuses the speed of thrash with death metal's heaviness, rooted in the Finnish tradition of extreme metal excellence.
Thrash and death metal act from Holzminden, Germany, delivering unrelenting aggression since 2015. Their sound merges the speed and precision of thrash with death metal's guttural intensity, rooted firmly in the German extreme metal tradition.
Thrash metal band from the Sarpsborg-Fredrikstad area of southeastern Norway, active since 2021 and named after the Black Sabbath song. Their classic metal reference and Norwegian origins root their thrash sound in deep metal tradition.
Thrash metal and crossover band from Rome, Italy, active since 2017. Their playful name belies a serious commitment to high-energy crossover thrash from the Italian capital.
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