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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Butte, Montana's My Fist Your Face bring the blunt physicality of the band name to their heavy/thrash metal approach, forming in 2024 with a beer-and-leather no-frills attitude suited to Montana's hardscrabble character.
My Funeral is a death/thrash metal act from Jyväskylä in central Finland, delivering aggressive extremity since 2010. The band pairs relentless thrash tempos with death metal brutality in a style indebted to the late 1980s thrash-death crossover.
My Nothing is a thrash/death metal band from Zagreb, Croatia, formed in 2008. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
My Own Fear is a thrash and death metal band from Val d'Oise, France, formed in 2014. They forge aggressive extreme metal from the northern Paris suburbs.
A crossover/thrash metal and metalcore act from Groningen, My Own Words has been delivering aggressive compositions since 2016. The band channels personal expression through the energy of crossover thrash.
Beverly, Massachusetts veterans My Pet Demon have been carrying the torch for heavy and thrash metal since 2001, their North Shore Massachusetts roots showing in a tough, workmanlike approach to classic metal forms.
My Torment is a thrash metal act from the UK, formed in 2025. The band delivers aggressive, emotionally charged thrash metal with a focus on personal turmoil and psychological themes.
A one-man or small-unit project from West Hazleton, Pennsylvania, Myke Owns has been blending the thrashing velocity of thrash metal with death metal's low-tuned malice since 2014, operating deep in the Pennsylvania underground.
Detroit thrash act Mykronian has been honing a sharp, riff-driven sound since 2018, pulling from the classic American thrash tradition with the blue-collar intensity that has long defined heavy music coming out of Michigan's Motor City.
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