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Unreasonable Doubt (2024)
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A Love To Kill For (2023)
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Obnoxious (2022)
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Thrash metal outfit from Southern Sweden, formed in 2021. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Stoner doom act from Monastyryshche, formed in 2013. Their music moves at a glacial pace through layers of fuzz and psychedelic textures, inviting the listener into a trance-like state of heavy meditation.
Spanish thrash metal and hardcore band from Torelló in Catalonia, formed in 2018. They fuse thrash metal speed with hardcore's confrontational energy.
Vendone-based heavy metal and hard rock outfit active since 2015, blending classic heavy metal riffing with the swagger and groove of hard rock. Their sound channels the spirit of 1970s and 1980s arena rock through crunchy guitar tones and hook-laden songwriting.
Seixal-based heavy metal and hard rock outfit active since 2024, blending classic heavy metal riffing with the swagger and groove of hard rock. Their sound channels the spirit of 1970s and 1980s arena rock through crunchy guitar tones and hook-laden songwriting.
German thrash metal band from Dortmund, formed in 2020. They forge modern thrash metal from the Ruhr Valley's deep metal tradition.
Bonded by Blood is a thrash metal band formed in 2005 in Pomona, California, named directly after the classic Exodus album of the same title. Rooted in the Bay Area thrash tradition, the band self-released their debut EP Extinguish the Weak in 2007, which earned them a deal with Earache Records. Their debut full-length Feed the Beast (2008) and follow-ups Exiled to Earth (2010) and The Aftermath (2012) established them as committed revivalists of 1980s Bay Area aggression.
Finnish melodic death metal band from the Kuopio-Varkaus region, formed in 2021. They craft melodic death metal from the lake country of Savonia.
Death/thrash outfit from Corby, formed in 2013. Their sound channels the raw energy of 1980s thrash through death metal's heavier lens, pairing aggressive vocals with riff-centric compositions.
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