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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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Austrian speed and thrash metal project born out of the 2020 pandemic lockdowns. Their 'Pandemic Isolation Demo MMXX' channels quarantine frustration into blistering speed metal with hardcore and punk aggression.
Raleigh black metal act conjuring raw, icy darkness out of the North Carolina underground. Their music leans into the grim, lo-fi aesthetic of classic second-wave black metal.
Heavy metal band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2015. They deliver melodic, energetic heavy metal from Finland's oldest city.
Death metal band from the Marchfeld region of Austria, active since 2016. They bring heavy, unrelenting death metal from the flatlands east of Vienna with a focus on brutality and groove.
Long Island brutal death metal band bringing medically-themed gore and grinding intensity to the New York underground. Their music is dense, fast, and unrelentingly brutal.
Legendary Swiss thrash metal pioneers from Zurich, formed in 1987. One of the most technically innovative bands in thrash history, Coroner pushed the genre's boundaries with progressive and jazz-influenced compositions across seminal albums that remain genre-defining.
Black metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, active since 1987. One of the earliest black metal bands in Scotland, Coronizer are pioneers of the Scottish extreme metal underground.
Green Lane, Pennsylvania thrash metal band channeling old-school aggression and tight, riff-driven energy. Their sound is rooted in the classic American thrash tradition.
Sludge metal band from the Neuwied/Koblenz area of the Middle Rhine, Germany, active since 2009. They deliver thick, oppressive sludge from the confluence of the Rhine and Mosel.
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