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Eschatology of War (2021)
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Evidence (2023)
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Death/doom/thrash metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2020. Their genre-spanning approach merges the crushing weight of doom, the brutality of death metal, and the speed of thrash.
San Francisco's Herpes lean into D-beat and goregrind with the kind of self-aware punk nihilism that the Bay Area's underground has always nurtured since their 2010 formation. The name tells you everything about their attitude toward conventional good taste.
Thrash/heavy metal band from Valencia, Spain, active since 1994. Three decades of thunderous thrash and heavy metal make them one of the longest-running metal acts in the Valencian Community.
Herzoga is a thrash metal band from Kraków, Poland, active since 2023 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
Progressive thrash/death metal band from Široki Brijeg, Bosnia and Herzegovina, originally formed as OrioN in 2007. Their conceptually linked albums Human At Sight and Monster At Heart explore the human condition through complex, thematically ambitious progressive death metal across nearly an hour of material each.
Thrash/heavy metal band from Pilsen, Czech Republic, active since 2019. Their muscular thrash delivers crushing heaviness from the same city known for its legendary beer and metallic fury.
Operating from Helsinki, this progressive/symphonic thrash metal project has been shaping menacing sound since 2011. Their compositions deliver the genre's essential fury with technical skill.
Minneapolis thrash unit Hex Vortices arrived in 2019 with a classic approach to the genre's mechanics — locked-in riffing, forward-leaning rhythm, and vocals that spit rather than sing. Fast and unambiguous, they owe more to Bay Area forebears than to modern metal's smoothed-out edges.
Hexagram is a thrash metal band from Basingstoke/Portsmouth, United Kingdom, active since 2014 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
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