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The Fear (2022)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Dial Tone (2022)
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Harvey Wallbanger is a thrash metal band from Sala, Sweden, active since 2024 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
San Diego's HarXson are a brand-new thrash metal outfit formed in 2025, carrying the torch for a genre the city has embraced since the 1980s. Still early in their existence, they bring the speed, aggression, and riff-forward approach that thrash has always demanded.
Sludge doom metal project from Brighton on the English south coast, active since 2021. Their damaged name matches crushing compositions that blend the weight of doom with sludge metal's abrasive textures.
Thrash metal band from Mannheim, Germany, formed in 2020. Their riff-driven thrash channels the aggressive spirit of the genre from the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region.
Austin's Hatchetwork have been swinging thrash metal axes since 2019, their sound steeped in the Bay Area and Texas traditions the city has quietly harbored for decades. Fast, riff-driven, and built for the pit.
Chicago's Hate draw from a broad well of extreme subgenres, weaving thrash, sludge, and doom into a dense, shifting sound since 2013. The Midwest backdrop gives the music a cold, industrial weight that fits the trio of genres like a rusted glove.
From Oslo in Norway, this blackened thrash metal act brings relentless intensity to the regional scene since 2019. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
Saint Paul's Hate Beast have been crossing death and thrash metal since 2013, cultivating a sound with the bite of both — technical enough to keep things interesting, violent enough to keep things honest. Minnesota grit runs through the marrow.
Detroit's Hate Chamber arrived in 2024 fusing groove metal's locked-in heaviness with thrash metal's attacking momentum. The Motor City backdrop feels appropriate — rhythmically precise, mechanically relentless.
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