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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Thrash metal band from Rochlitz, Germany formed in 2020. Whiplash brings rapid-fire riffing and relentless energy to the Saxon thrash scene with an uncompromising approach to speed and aggression.
Los Angeles' Whipworm formed in 2016 combining the caustic aggression of death metal with thrash's relentless forward propulsion — a combination the city's sprawling extreme music underground has always had room for. Their name is as unpleasant as their sound is meant to be, and in LA's competitive heavy underground that is a credibility move as much as anything else. Fast, filthy, and exactly as hostile as intended.
Thrash metal band from Yutz, France formed in 2021. White Bastard channels raw thrash aggression from the Moselle region near the Luxembourg border.
Thrash metal band from Munich, Germany formed in 2014 with a catalog spanning from early demos through releases like The Iron Curse EP, Sacrifice Your Future, and Arrows at the Sun. White Mantis delivers relentless thrash from Bavaria with a raw, underground edge.
Death and thrash metal band from Catalonia, Spain formed in 2017. Whitedeath combines death metal's guttural fury with thrash's speed from the northeast of Spain.
Black, death, and thrash metal band from Valencia, Spain active since 2017. Whoredom unleashes a triple-pronged attack of extreme subgenres, merging the darkness of black metal with the brutality of death and speed of thrash.
Thrash metal band from Kraków, Poland formed in 2023. Whorehouse channels raw thrash aggression from the cultural capital of southern Poland.
Avant-garde thrash metal band from Nuoro, Sardinia active since 2001. Why? brings over two decades of experimental thrash metal from the mountainous interior of the Mediterranean island.
Named after the infamous pirate ship, Indianapolis's Whydah launched in 2025 at the crossroads of crossover thrash and full-on thrash metal — the kind of no-frills, pit-ready attack that tips its cap to both hardcore street ethos and metal's technical ferocity. Even as one of the newer acts in the Midwest's resurgent heavy underground, they're already sharpening a sound that values speed and impact above all else.
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