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Detroit's Witch has been running hot since 2006, fueling their thrash and speed metal with the city's industrial grit and a no-frills aggression that owes as much to early Motorhead as it does the Bay Area thrash canon. Their sound is lean and mean — fast riffs, barked vocals, zero pretense. In a city with a long history of hard music, they've kept the old-school flame lit.
Belgian black metal and thrash hybrid from Ghent active since 2015, blending noise rock textures, post-punk atmospherics, and black metal aggression across three albums including Nithera, Thole, and The Sun Has Left the Hill. Reviewers have noted their jagged, melodic sound draws comparisons to noise rock acts like Jesus Lizard alongside their extreme metal foundation.
Black/thrash metal band from Cittadella, Italy formed in 2018. Witchbrew merges the occult darkness of black metal with thrash's velocity from the walled town near Padua.
Based in Talkeetna, Alaska — one of the more remote homes for any metal band in the country — Witchcrown have been grinding out thrash-infused black metal since 2011. The isolation of the Alaskan interior is palpable in their sound: cold, stripped-down, and driven by a DIY ethos that makes most continental scenes look pampered. They are a testament to the fact that geography is no obstacle to ferocity.
Blackened thrash/speed metal band from Linköping, Sweden active since 2011. Witchery delivers high-velocity blackened thrash with razor-sharp riffing from the Östergötland city.
Speed, thrash, and death metal band from Antibes, France active since 2012. Witches unleashes a triple assault of extreme speed, thrash precision, and death metal heaviness from the French Riviera.
Multi-genre project from Jaén, Spain active since 2017, evolving from heavy metal through technical death/thrash metal to post-rock. Witchshire's stylistic journey reflects an ambitious creative vision that refuses to be confined to a single genre.
Northern Virginia's With Burning Contempt formed in 2013 and have been working the convergence of thrash, death, and black metal ever since — a trifecta that allows them to be punishing from multiple angles at once. The Northern Virginia/DC corridor has a long and underrated history in American extreme metal, and this band carries that tradition forward with aggression and purpose. Their name signals the attitude: no nostalgia, just hostility.
Richmond, Virginia's Witherhorde formed in 2024 playing thrash and heavy metal with the urgency of a band that has a lot to prove and no patience for half-measures. Richmond is one of the American South's genuinely strong metal cities, with a DIY underground that has produced a steady stream of serious acts over the decades. Witherhorde are a new entry in that lineage, leaning hard into the old-school thrash tradition.
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