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Tezura is a thrash metal band from Munich, Germany, formed in 2019. They deliver fast, aggressive thrash from the Bavarian capital.
Oakland's Thanatopsis carry a storied name — the 19th-century poem meditating on death — into a death/thrash sound that has evolved from progressive roots toward leaner, more aggressive territory since forming in 2020. The Bay Area's tradition of technically proficient thrash and death metal runs through their DNA, updated with the sharp-edged intensity of Oakland's current underground.
Thangram from Turin deliver progressive thrash metal with the geometric puzzle-toy precision their name demands since 2022. Their Piedmontese base channels mathematical arrangement through technically demanding compositions.
Tharn is a thrash metal band from Marburg, Germany, formed in 2020. They deliver aggressive, riff-driven thrash metal.
Seattle's The Accüsed are one of the Pacific Northwest's most storied names in crossover thrash, a band whose splatter-punk aesthetic and machine-gun riffing helped define the intersection of hardcore and thrash in the region's fertile underground. Reconstituted and active as of 2025, they carry decades of grime-soaked credibility into a scene that owes them more than it often admits.
Out of Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, The Aegean forge a heavy/thrash hybrid rooted in classic metal tradition — galloping riffs, muscular rhythms, and a straightforward no-frills approach to songwriting that keeps the focus on the riff above all else. Formed in 2019, they represent a newer generation of American acts committed to keeping the timeless mechanics of traditional thrash alive and loud.
New Hampshire's The Antioch Antioxidant Accident are as unwieldy in sound as in name — an experimental melodic death/thrash metal act formed in 2015 that subjects the genre's mechanics to deliberate derangement, bending melodeath hooks and thrash riffs through strange structural angles. Their irreverent approach treats metal's conventions as raw material to be reassembled in improbable configurations.
Casper, Wyoming's The Band Repent bring thrash metal to one of the most remote corners of the American metal underground, a fitting backdrop for music that thrives on isolation and intensity. Formed in 2021, they're among the very few acts flying the thrash flag in Wyoming's sparse scene, and all the more notable for it.
The Bitch Boyz is a thrash metal band from Wolfsburg, Germany, formed in 2020. They deliver aggressive thrash with an irreverent streak.
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