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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Los Angeles doom metal act Lost Breed returned in 2025 after years away, dragging their slow, suffocating heaviness back into the light with zero urgency and maximum weight.
German progressive thrash metal band from Dusseldorf, blending technical complexity with thrash ferocity since 2008. Their long-running approach pushes thrash metal's boundaries through progressive structures and intricate arrangements.
Italian thrash metal band from Modena, delivering classic thrash aggression since 2018. Their name evokes the abandoned, searching quality beneath their thrash metal's fierce exterior.
Swedish industrial/thrash metal band from Uppsala, merging mechanical rhythms with thrash aggression since 2016. Their approach fuses industrial metal's cold precision with thrash's raw fury.
French thrash/death metal band from Poitiers, delivering aggressive extremity since 2010. Their sound channels the combined fury of thrash velocity and death metal heaviness.
Polish heavy/thrash metal band from Oswiecim, combining classic metal power with thrash velocity since 2017. Their oxymoronic name captures the tension between silence and heaviness in their sound.
Low Life is a thrash/crossover metal band from Brasília, Brazil, known for high-speed, aggressive material rooted in the city's underground scene. In 2023 they released a split with fellow Brasília act D.F.C. titled Thrashformation, issued on limited yellow vinyl. The band returned to live activity in 2025 after a decade-long hiatus.
Scottish progressive/thrash metal band from Glasgow, active since 2007 and blending technical ambition with thrash aggression. Their nearly two decades of activity span the evolution of both progressive and thrash metal.
Swedish thrash metal/crossover band from Orebro, merging thrash speed with punk attitude since 2014. Their name captures the bottom-feeding, ground-level aggression of their crossover thrash.
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