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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Thrash metal band from Prelouc, Czech Republic, active since 1996. With nearly three decades of activity, Crionic are seasoned veterans of the Czech thrash scene.
Death-thrash metal band from Hanover, Germany, formed in 2014. They deliver a fierce blend of death metal brutality and thrash metal velocity from Lower Saxony's capital.
Crossover thrash and power-thrash act from Budapest, active since 2009. Crippled Fox combines high-speed thrash riffing with punk energy and melodic power metal elements.
Death-thrash band from Biała Podlaska in eastern Poland, formed in 2023. Crippling Madness brings extreme metal to the Podlasie border region.
Death-thrash band from Vicenza, active since 2012. Crisalide — Italian for 'chrysalis' — delivers aggressive extreme metal from the Veneto region.
Edmonds, Washington heavy and progressive metal band blending the melodic ambition of progressive music with the muscular authority of traditional heavy metal in the Pacific Northwest.
Thrash metal band from Igualada near Barcelona, Spain, active since 2021. They deliver high-energy, riff-driven thrash from the Catalan interior.
Cristo is a groove/death/thrash metal band from Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina, formed in 2023. The band released a self-titled EP available on their Bandcamp page, carving out a heavy, riff-driven sound within the Córdoba metal scene.
Intense Southern / Groove Metal / Metalcore from Austin.
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