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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Thrash metal band from Helsinki, Finland formed in 2016. They deliver fierce, riff-driven thrash from the Finnish capital.
Thrash metal act from Berlin, Germany, delivering high-speed aggression since 2019. Their scientific prefix name reflects a precise, methodical approach to the thrash metal craft.
Exagorth is a thrash metal band from Morón, in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area, whose lyrics address politics, corruption, and anti-religious themes. The band released the EP Siniestra Oscuridad in 2010, a four-track recording featuring tracks including "Perversos Impunes" and "Predicando La Mentira". They remain an independent act within the active Argentine thrash underground.
On the warpath since 2015, this Nizhny Novgorod Speed Metal and Thrash Metal outfit delivers relentless velocity and old-school metal purity. Their place within Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
The Polish city of Częstochowa serves as headquarters for this death metal and thrash metal operation, whose arsenal includes suffocating heaviness anchored by rumbling low-end. Each release doubles down on cavernous production and churning tremolo work.
Heavy/thrash metal act from Cologne, Germany, delivering powerful, riff-driven compositions since 2014. Their approach combines the best of traditional heavy metal and thrash from one of Germany's largest cities.
Firmly rooted in thrash metal, this British actfrom Cwmbrân delivers palm-muted barrages and speed-freak intensity without compromise. They've been at it since 2023, and their riffs arrive at terminal velocity with zero tolerance for filler.
Venice, California's Excel are a storied name in the American crossover thrash tradition, their roots going back before the current active period, and continuing as a working band since 2014. Drawing from the beach punk and skate-thrash culture of the Venice scene, their music bridges the ferocity of hardcore with the technical muscle of thrash in a way that defined West Coast crossover.
Progressive death/thrash metal act from Switzerland's Rhine Valley, combining the technicality of progressive metal with death and thrash aggression since 2007. Their genre-crossing approach blends cerebral complexity with visceral, high-speed energy.
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