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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Death and thrash metal band from Verona, Italy active since 2014. Warbutcher delivers a punishing hybrid of death and thrash metal from the city of Romeo and Juliet.
Thrash and black metal band from Rakovník, Czech Republic formed in 2015. Warchild merges the speed of thrash with the darkness of black metal in a raw, uncompromising style from the Czech underground.
Melodic death/thrash metal band from Switzerland formed in 2022. Warclaw merges the melodic sensibility of Gothenburg-style death metal with the speed and aggression of thrash into a potent Swiss hybrid.
Thrash metal band from Belfast, Northern Ireland active since 2017, evolving from crossover thrash into grindcore and death metal territory. Wardomized has pushed their sound increasingly extreme while maintaining the aggressive energy of their crossover roots.
Power, thrash, and speed metal band from Stuttgart, Germany formed in 2015. Warfair blends the melodic ambition of power metal with the velocity of thrash and speed metal into an energetic triple threat.
WARFECT formed in Uddevalla, Sweden in 2008, releasing their debut Depicting the Macabre in 2009 before fully consolidating their sound into sharp, Bay Area-influenced thrash on Exoneration Denied (2013). Signed to Napalm Records, the band has continued releasing records including Spectre of Devastation (2020), maintaining a consistent output within the Swedish thrash underground. Their approach draws from both American Bay Area riffing and the aggressive directness of classic Teutonic thrash.
Warfield formed in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany in 2012 as a three-piece dedicated to old-school thrash metal in the tradition of Slayer, Sodom, Kreator, and Bay Area acts. The band released their debut full-length Wrecking Command in 2018 through Metal on Metal Records before signing to Napalm Records for their second album With the Old Breed (2025), marking a significant step forward in terms of profile and reach.
Death-thrash metal band from Mönchengladbach, Germany founded in 2005, featuring Sebastian Meisen on vocals, Christian Neumann and Felix Lemmen on guitars/bass, and Selim Karakoc on drums. After a hiatus from 2013-2019, they returned with renewed force, releasing Beast Inside, Pure Purge, and the 2025 album Rise of Independence.
Warfire is a heavy/thrash metal band from Tatuí, São Paulo, Brazil, drawing from classic 1980s metal and the Brazilian heavy metal tradition. The band released the EP It's Time to War and the album Heralds of Eternal Order (2017), the latter issued as a limited CD through Breath of Pestilence.
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