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AMENRA "Vanuytsel 7"" (2021)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Thrash metal act from the Schaumburg district of Lower Saxony, Germany, freshly formed in 2025. Their hell-referencing name drives a sound rooted in the fiery intensity and relentless speed of classic thrash metal.
New Orleans legends Exhorder helped birth the groove metal template before most bands knew what to call it, and their 2019 reformation brought that signature Southern heaviness roaring back into the conversation. Equal parts thrash ferocity and swampy mid-tempo swing, they remain one of the Crescent City's most important contributions to extreme metal.
Connecticut's Exhortation have been hammering out uncompromising death metal since 2016, channeling the region's underground intensity into punishing, riff-forward compositions. Their approach is rooted in classic death metal craft — no frills, no concessions, just dense and purposeful brutality.
Exhumatory is a Death/Thrash Metal band from Quito, Ecuador. The band released the EP "Bone Crusher" in 2019, operating independently within Ecuador's underground extreme metal scene.
A product of the birthplace of heavy metal itself, this London-based heavy metal and thrash metal act channels mosh-pit-inducing aggression with tightly wound precision. Active since 2022, the tempo rarely drops below neck-breaking speed.
Thrash metal band from Tamines in Belgium's Walloon region, bringing aggressive, hardcore-tinged thrash since 2020. Their approach merges the speed of thrash metal with the raw intensity of the Belgian hardcore scene.
Devotees of thrash metal, this Russian outfit from Moscow has been refining their craft since 2017. Their sound hinges on galloping rhythms and shredding leads that recall metal's golden age, delivered with single-minded purpose.
Roman progressive power/thrash metal band formed in 2000, with a discography spanning The Orwell Legacy, Forces of Denial, NonEuclidean, The Onyx Path EP, and 2024's Vertenebra. Self-described as focusing on songs that balance ferocity with melody, their five releases across two decades demonstrate a commitment to evolving their technical metal vision.
Heavy, industrial, and thrash metal hybrid from Jaen, Spain active since 2016. They fuse mechanical industrial textures with thrash aggression from the olive oil capital of Spain.
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