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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Crossover thrash/hardcore band from Aarschot in Flemish Brabant, active since 2017, blending the speed of thrash metal with hardcore's confrontational energy. Their crossover approach creates a high-energy fusion that bridges metal and punk communities.
Rome's Strengthcode blend groove and thrash metal from the Italian capital since 2010. Their encrypted-power name channels the precision of programming into rhythmically coded aggression.
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Portland, Oregon crossover thrash band formed in 2024, fusing hardcore punk's raw energy with thrash metal's technical riffing in the city's active heavy underground scene.
Stockholm's Stressfest pair thrash and speed metal from the Swedish capital since 2023. Their anxiety-celebration name channels the paradox of festive tension into compositions of freshly-minted, high-velocity aggression.
Painesville, Ohio death/thrash metal and hardcore crossover band formed in 2024, combining the extremity of death metal and thrash with the raw, confrontational energy of hardcore punk.
Poway, California thrash and death metal band formed in 2023, blending the speed and technical riffing of thrash with the heavier, more brutal textures of death metal.
Chicago, Illinois band formed in 2019 operating across death, thrash, and doom metal, drawing on all three traditions to create a multi-textured sound that shifts from blasting aggression to slow, crushing heaviness.
Strike Back deliver death and thrash metal from the German underground, combining extreme metal's brutality with aggressive velocity. Active since 2015, they bring retaliatory force to the German extreme scene.
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