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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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A heavy/thrash metal act from Montebelluna in the Treviso province, Mindcrushers has been delivering riff-driven aggression since 2016. The band channels the industrial energy of the Veneto into crushing metal.
Mindfight is a thrash metal and metalcore band from the Copenhagen area of Denmark, formed in 2014. They fuse thrash metal's velocity with metalcore's breakdown-driven aggression.
A thrash metal and metalcore act from Moscow, MindJail has been delivering aggressive compositions since 2020. The band channels the claustrophobic imagery of mental imprisonment into intense, confrontational metal.
Mindlag Project is a thrash metal and metalcore band from Vitrolles, France, formed in 2025. They blend thrash metal's velocity with metalcore's structural aggression from the Marseille area.
A young St. Joseph, Missouri outfit formed in 2024 that merges the pulverizing low-end chug of groove metal with the aggressive riffing of thrash and flashes of death metal brutality, carving out a heavyweight sound rooted in the American Midwest.
MindMatrix are a heavy/thrash metal band from Styria, Austria, working within the energetic riff-driven tradition of European thrash. The band operates independently in the Styrian underground metal scene and maintains a Bandcamp presence at mindmatrix.bandcamp.com. Detailed discography information remains limited, reflecting their underground and self-released status.
Greenville, South Carolina's Mindphaser deliver a grinding blend of thrash and groove metal built on percussive mid-tempo riffs and a punishing low-register attack that has been a fixture of the Upstate metal scene since 2015.
Operating from the central Finnish cities of Jyväskylä and Äänekoski, Mindration delivers thrash metal with the kind of tight, precise execution that reflects Finland's strong tradition in extreme music. Active since 2014, the band favors speed and aggression.
Hailing from Woodstock, Illinois, Mindscar fuse the melodic ambition of power metal with the aggressive momentum of thrash, a combination that keeps their sound both anthemic and sharp-edged since their formation in 2015.
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