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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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South Kitsap Infidels are a thrash/groove metal band from Port Orchard, Washington, formed in 2019, drawing on the Pacific Northwest's deep metal heritage to craft punishing, rhythm-forward metal with a distinctly regional character.
Southern Brutality is a New Orleans, Louisiana thrash/groove metal band formed in 2020, merging the punch of groove metal with thrash intensity in a city with a long tradition of heavy, dark, and uncompromising music.
Razor-sharp Thrash Metal from Austin.
Southern Heretics are a Duncan, Oklahoma band formed in 2014 that fuses Southern metal's gritty, bluesy heaviness with the speed and ferocity of thrash, carving out a regionally distinctive sound from the Oklahoma underground.
Vicious Thrash Metal from Wichita Falls.
Sovereignty is a New York speed/thrash metal band formed in 2019, fusing the velocity of speed metal with the punishing riff structures of classic thrash.
Ljubljana's Sovrag merge blackened death and thrash metal from the Slovenian capital since 2021. Their Slovenian name meaning "enemy" or "adversary" channels the confrontation with hostile forces into compositions of triple-genre aggression.
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Space Chaser deliver thrash and speed metal from Berlin, channeling the genre's breakneck velocity through cosmic-themed compositions. Active since 2017, they've built a reputation for high-energy, interstellar thrash that combines old-school aggression with science fiction imagery.
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