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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Death and thrash metal band from Leoben, Austria, active since 2017. They bring a punishing combination of death metal heaviness and thrash metal speed from the industrial heartland of Upper Styria.
Thrash metal band from Leeds, England, active since 2013. They deliver aggressive thrash from Yorkshire.
Thrash metal band from the port city of Rijeka, Croatia, formed in 2016. Czaar brings aggressive, riff-driven thrash to the Adriatic metal scene.
Cárcere is a thrash metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2018. The independent band released their debut EP "Crimes de Guerra" in December 2018, a five-track slab of aggressive Brazilian thrash rooted in the classic traditions of the genre.
Black-speed-thrash act from Lisbon, active since 2014. Cães de Guerra — Portuguese for 'dogs of war' — delivers ferocious, war-themed extreme metal from the Portuguese capital.
Cérebro de Galinha is a crossover/thrash hardcore band from Marabá, Pará, Brazil, formed around 2015 and operating independently. The band plays aggressive, politically charged material and has released two albums: "Sociedades Secretas" (2018) and "Norte em Chamas" (2021).
Cülpado is a death/thrash metal project from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, founded in 2021 by Jefferson Verdani, a drummer known from bands including Murdeath, Axecuter, and Sad Theory. Operating largely as a one-person effort, Verdani composed, recorded, and performed all instruments and vocals on the debut album Romper da Realidade, released on December 15, 2021 via Kill Again Records. The album's lyrics draw from the crimes of Brazilian serial killers, with the title inspired by a phrase used by forensic psychiatrist Guido Arturo Palomba.
Bucharest thrash metal act launched in 2025, whose Romanian name translates to 'Executioner,' delivering punishing aggression from the capital's underground. Their razor-sharp riffing channels the genre's tradition of lethal precision.
D'n'K is an extreme metal act from Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina, operating in the space between melodic death, death metal, and thrash. The band represents a persistent underground scene in the Brčko region that has pushed against genre boundaries with a raw, DIY ethos.
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