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Featured Album
The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Free the Witch EP (2018)
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Heavy thrash band from Rostov-on-Don, active since 2012. Corner Stone delivers aggressive, riff-driven metal from the southern Russian steppe.
Salt Lake City act fusing melodic death metal sensibilities with thrash aggression and brutal death metal weight. Their sound is fast, hook-laden, and relentlessly intense.
Thrash metal band from Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, formed in 2020. They represent the thrash metal revival in the Bosnian Republika Srpska with aggressive, riff-driven compositions.
Doom metal band from Oulu, Finland, formed in 2019. They craft slow, crushing doom from northern Finland.
Death-thrash metal band from France, active since 2005. They deliver aggressive death-thrash metal with two decades of experience.
Aurora, Illinois outfit blending doom and traditional heavy metal into crushing, atmosphere-laden compositions. Expect thick riffs and a dark, vintage heaviness.
Black metal band from London, active since 2013. They craft dark, nihilistic black metal from the English capital.
Thrash metal, crossover, and hardcore act from Targu Mures formed in 2019, fusing aggressive riffing with punk energy from the heart of Transylvania. Their genre-blending approach channels raw intensity from multiple extreme music traditions.
Melodic death metal act from Istanbul, active since 2015. Corona Borealis — named after the northern crown constellation — delivers hook-driven extreme metal from Turkey's largest city.
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