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Sickness Within blend metalcore with thrash metal from the Silkeborg/Aarhus area of central Jutland, combining modern breakdowns with old-school velocity. Active since 2010, they bring internal infection to the Danish heavy music scene.
Sickoticks deliver thrash metal from Sabadell near Barcelona, channeling aggressive velocity from the Catalan industrial heartland. Active since 2017, they bring tick-borne fury to the Valles Occidental metal scene.
Las Vegas progressive death/thrash act formed in 2017, weaving together technical complexity, thrashy aggression, and death metal weight into an ambitious and ever-shifting sound.
Progressive thrash metal band from Pleven in northern Bulgaria, active since 2018. Their progressive approach adds structural complexity and dynamic range to thrash metal's foundational aggression.
Siege of Power is an international death/thrash metal supergroup formed in the Netherlands in 2017, featuring Chris Reifert (Autopsy) on vocals, Paul Baayens (Asphyx) on guitar, Theo van Eekelen (ex-Hail of Bullets) on bass, and Bob Bagchus (ex-Asphyx) on drums. The band's debut album Warning Blast, released in 2018 on Metal Blade Records, delivered twenty tracks of raw, uncompromising death-thrash with doom and punk underpinnings. Their follow-up This Is Tomorrow (2023) continued the band's relentless approach, drawing on the collective pedigree of its members to produce some of the most authoritative extreme metal of the era.
Houston thrash/doom/death metal crossover act formed in 2018, drawing from three distinct traditions of extremity to craft a dense, shifting sound rooted in the Texas underground.
Sign of Death deliver thrash metal from Ladenburg near Heidelberg, channeling aggressive velocity from the ancient Celtic-Roman settlement in Baden. Formed in 2021, their morbid name and thrash approach carry the torch of classic German extremity.
Georgia-based Signed in Black emerged in 2025 with a sound that crosses the technical ambition of progressive metal against the aggression of death and thrash, a young act already charting ambitious territory.
Significance deliver thrash metal from Berlin, channeling the genre's aggressive velocity from the German capital. Formed in 2023, they represent the newest wave of Berlin thrash.
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