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Architects Of A New Weave (Deluxe Album) (2026)
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Bristol, Tennessee's Omega Tribe fuse groove metal's rhythmic punch with thrash's velocity, staking out a sound that's heavy without sacrificing momentum. Since 2017, they've represented the Appalachian end of the Southern metal underground with swagger and force.
Gothenburg thrash metal act active since 2018, a somewhat contrarian stylistic choice in a city globally synonymous with melodic death metal. Their thrash approach draws energy from that creative tension with their hometown's dominant genre.
Madrid blackened thrash metal act active since 2009, among the Spanish capital's more established extreme metal outfits. Over fifteen years they have honed a style that fuses black metal's venom with thrash's kinetic aggression.
Los Angeles death/thrash unit Omnicide carve through breakneck riff structures with a ferocity that owes equal debt to early Morbid Angel and the Bay Area thrash tradition. Since forming in 2012 they have kept their attack tight, mean, and relentlessly forward-moving.
Marseille's On the Edge throws together death, groove, thrash, and melodic death metal into a high-energy crossover that keeps one foot in old-school aggression and the other in modern heaviness. Their tight, riff-centric songwriting owes as much to Lamb of God and Gojira as it does to classic thrash.
Death/thrash metal band from Amersfoort, the Netherlands, active since 2011. Their long-running project delivers aggressive death-thrash crossover from the Utrecht province city.
Ripping Power / Thrash Metal from San Antonio.
One of Them is a Porto Alegre thrash metal outfit whose 2019 album Blind Faith, recorded at Hurricane Studio with producer Sebastian Carsin, brought together vocalist GG Mussi, guitarists Jeff Witt and Ivan Santos, bassist Alexandre Guterres, and drummer Jonas Koehler. The record marked a new phase for the band, arriving roughly a decade after their debut EP I Am One of Them and featuring a Portuguese-language track for the first time.
Delft thrash/groove metal act active since 2012, delivering rhythmically driven metal from the Dutch city famous for its pottery. Over a decade they have refined a style that pairs thrash's velocity with groove metal's head-nodding heaviness.
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