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Thrash metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2016, delivering sick thrash metal power from the Russian capital. They bring nearly a decade of aggressive riffing to Moscow's thrash scene.
San Bernardino's Powerthrone has been fusing thrash and black metal's most combative qualities since 2012, drawing from the Inland Empire's rough edges to produce something that sounds both sun-scorched and genuinely sinister. The blackened thrash formula here leans hard into speed and venom — riffs that flay rather than groove, with a coldness borrowed from Scandinavian black metal grafted onto the California thrash tradition. Over a decade in, they remain one of the Inland Empire's more committed extreme metal outfits.
Power and thrash metal band with hardcore influences from Guipavas, France, formed in 2008, delivering energetic crossover metal from Brittany. Their versatile approach blends power metal melody with thrash and hardcore aggression.
Sludge and thrash metal band from Banska Stiavnica, Slovakia, formed in 2014, whose Latin-style name twists 'peace be with you' into 'pox be with you.' Over a decade of diseased sludge-thrash from the historic mining town.
Thrash metal band from Purmerend, Netherlands, formed in 2014, delivering relentless thrash metal from the North Holland region. They bring over a decade of headbanging aggression to the Dutch thrash scene.
Technical crossover and thrash metal band from Zalec, Slovenia, formed in 2014, delivering technically demanding crossover thrash from the Savinja Valley. Over a decade of precision aggression.
Madison, Wisconsin's Praivent has been working the seam between progressive and thrash metal since 2016, bringing the university city's technically-inclined sensibility to a subgenre that doesn't always reward precision. Where thrash prizes speed and spite, Praivent layers in rhythmic complexity and structural ambition without losing the genre's inherent aggression — the songs shift and breathe while still hitting hard. Madison's surprisingly robust metal underground has produced a handful of technically sharp bands, and Praivent fits that mold.
Thrash metal band from Lagos, Portugal, active since 2009, delivering relentless thrash from the Algarve coast. Over fifteen years they have maintained their position in the Portuguese thrash scene.
Predatory are a São Paulo thrash metal outfit whose material has been picked up by underground compilations including Suspiria de Profundis II and Violent Records' Endless Massacre IV, on which their track "Hated" appeared. Their sound is rooted in personal, gritty themes delivered through the hard-hitting thrash tradition of the Brazilian underground.
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