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Death/thrash metal band from Osasco, São Paulo, operating under the name Metargon from 1985 to 1987 before adopting the Skullkrusher name. Active from 1987 to 1994 and reformed in 2015, the band recorded a debut album at Estúdio J.G. in Belo Horizonte in March 1992 that was never officially released.
Skullmasher is a death-thrash metal band from Campana, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, operating as an independent act since their formation in 2013. The band released "Death Follows Your Steps" in January 2013 and followed it with two releases in June 2015: "Human Slaughterhouse" and "Wrath of the Fallen Gods." Their music blends death and thrash metal elements with black metal influences, placing them within Argentina's underground extreme metal scene.
Portland, Oregon's SkullMaster emerged in 2020 playing a hybrid of black, heavy, and thrash metal that carries the reckless energy of the Pacific Northwest underground. Their sound pulls from classic thrash aggression while threading in black metal atmospherics and traditional heavy metal songcraft.
Philadelphia's Skullovich formed in 2023 to play the kind of fast, lean thrash and speed metal that cities like their own helped define decades ago. Their approach is unambiguous — riffs built for momentum, solos built for impact, with no detours into modern subgenre territory.
Active since 2006 out of Bethany, Oklahoma, Skullpl8 have spent nearly two decades refining a death/thrash hybrid that values punishment over polish. Operating under the Horn Cloud Bandcamp banner, they represent the stubborn, self-sufficient streak of the Great Plains underground.
Thrash metal band from São Paulo formed in September 1996 by vocalist Sidney Guerra alongside bassist Marcos Rodrigues, drummer Texx, and guitarist Leandro Brenner. The band released their debut demo 'Travelling Through Another Reality' in September 1997 before splitting up.
SkullRod forge death and thrash metal from the Lapland town of Kemi, combining extreme metal aggression with the harsh conditions of Finland's far north. Active since 2014, they bring Arctic-forged extremity to the Finnish scene.
New York's SkullSplitter formed in 2021 and plays a crossover-adjacent style of death/thrash metal that leans into brute forward momentum. Though their city information is unspecified, their Bandcamp presence marks them as part of the current New York underground's renewed appetite for riff-forward extremity.
Skulptor hammer out heavy and thrash metal from Frydek-Mistek, combining the weight of traditional metal with thrash's velocity. Their Moravian-Silesian industrial city backdrop suits the no-frills aggression of their sound.
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