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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
Featured Power Metal Album
No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Thrash metal and crossover act from Pamplona in Navarre, Spain, blending high-speed aggression with punk attitude since 2019. Their electrified eel name captures the shocking, high-voltage energy of their crossover thrash.
Heavy metal and thrash band from Livadia, Greece launched in 2024. They deliver electrifying metal from central Greece.
Albuquerque's Electrocuted have been welding death and thrash metal together since 2018 in a city not known for extreme music, making their existence a small but defiant entry in the New Mexico underground.
The Italian city of Salerno serves as headquarters for this thrash metal operation, whose arsenal includes galloping rhythms and shredding leads that recall metal's golden age. Razor-edged guitar tone and barked vocals recall thrash's golden era.
New York's Elefantkiller blend crossover thrash with straight-up thrash metal into something loud, chaotic, and absurdly fun — the band's name says everything about their commitment to over-the-top heaviness since 2013.
Salinas, California's Elektrix have been churning out meat-and-potatoes thrash metal since 2015, the agricultural heartland of the Central Valley providing an unlikely but appropriate backdrop for no-frills aggression.
A product of Russia's vast and intense metal underground, this Abakan-based thrash metal act channels whiplash-inducing tempo shifts and gang vocal outbursts. Active since 2016, pure adrenaline translated into riff form.
Melodic thrash metal act from Stuttgart, Germany, delivering precise, harmony-laden aggression since 2009. Their name, the Greek word for "mercy" or "compassion," provides an ironic counterpoint to their relentless thrash metal assault.
Black, death, and thrash metal band from Athens, Greece formed in 2022. They unleash a triple-headed extreme metal assault from the Greek capital.
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