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Death-thrash metal band from Motril on the Granada coast, Spain, emerging in 2025. They bring fresh aggression to the Andalusian extreme metal scene.
Thrash metal band from Regensburg, Germany, active since 2012. They deliver fast, hard-hitting thrash with irreverent energy from the medieval Bavarian city.
Sanford, Florida thrash band Counterattack play straight-forward, riff-driven metal in the Bay Area tradition — fast picking, aggressive drumming, and no patience for filler. They're a reliable fixture in Florida's underground thrash circuit.
Indianapolis speed/thrash act CounterClockwise channel classic 80s metal energy with high-velocity riffs and no-nonsense aggression. Their sound is rooted in the purist tradition of bands like Exodus and Overkill.
Groove-thrash act from Kovin in the Banat region, formed in 2026. CounterIgnition represents the newest wave of Serbian thrash metal.
Thrash metal band from Cournon in the Auvergne, France, active since 2011. They deliver aggressive thrash from the volcanic heartland of central France.
Cova was a death/thrash metal band from São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Brazil, active in the mid-2000s underground scene before splitting up. The band played aggressive extreme metal with themes centered on death, terror, and Satanism, in the tradition of the Brazilian extreme metal underground. They released demo material independently before disbanding.
Cova Raza is a thrash metal and crossover band from the Pouso Alegre and Borda da Mata area of Minas Gerais, Brazil, formed in 2015. The band operates independently and plays aggressive thrash with crossover hardcore influences, with lyrical themes covering death, violence, and social critique. They contributed a track to the Brazilian metal compilation "Sons de Guerra" on Roadie Metal (Vol. 13, 2019).
Fayetteville, Georgia's Covenant fuse groove metal's mid-tempo heaviness with thrash aggression and death metal bite. They operate in the tradition of mid-90s American metal, where crossover brutality was the defining characteristic.
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