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AntiFragile (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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New York's Cop Skeletons fuse progressive metal's structural ambition with thrash metal's aggressive backbone, building tense, dynamic compositions that reward attention. Their provocative name signals a sense of humor that coexists with genuinely serious musicianship.
Black-thrash metal band from Zaragoza, Spain, formed in 2015. They fuse the raw darkness of black metal with thrash metal aggression from the Aragonese capital.
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El Paso's Core Fire bring heavy metal and thrash metal together from the Texas-New Mexico border, forging a sound shaped by the city's isolated desert geography and its position between two major metal scenes. Their music carries the no-frills directness of a border town with something to prove.
Groove-thrash metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2011. They combine heavy grooves with thrash speed from the Finnish capital.
Heavy thrash band from Rostov-on-Don, active since 2012. Corner Stone delivers aggressive, riff-driven metal from the southern Russian steppe.
Salt Lake City act fusing melodic death metal sensibilities with thrash aggression and brutal death metal weight. Their sound is fast, hook-laden, and relentlessly intense.
Thrash metal band from Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, formed in 2020. They represent the thrash metal revival in the Bosnian Republika Srpska with aggressive, riff-driven compositions.
Death-thrash metal band from France, active since 2005. They deliver aggressive death-thrash metal with two decades of experience.
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