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Unreasonable Doubt (2024)
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A Love To Kill For (2023)
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Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious (2022)
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Placerville, California thrash band Cross operate in the tradition of Bay Area and Northern California thrash, delivering straightforward, riff-first aggression from the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
Albuquerque progressive/power/heavy metal band Cross blend epic song structures with melodic power metal hooks and progressive ambition, representing New Mexico's small but dedicated heavy metal community.
Heavy and power metal band from Tatabánya, Hungary, active since 1998. Cross Borns has been a pillar of the Hungarian traditional metal scene for over a quarter century.
Black metal project from Saint Petersburg, formed in 2020. Cross Bringer channels dark, blasphemous black metal from Russia's northern capital.
Austin crust/sludge outfit Cross Builder drag heavy, corroded riffs through a punk-rooted framework, trading in the grimy intersection of crust punk nihilism and sludge metal density.
Black-death metal band from Kaiserslautern, Germany, formed in 2020. They channel sacrilegious darkness through a fusion of black and death metal from the Palatinate.
St. Louis crossover/thrash act Cross Examination tear through pit-ready anthems with razor-sharp riffs and hardcore attitude, carrying on the crossover tradition in the Missouri underground.
Hungarian death metal project formed in 2014. Cross Eyed delivers unrelenting death metal brutality.
Mastic, New York death metal outfit Cross Fade bring Long Island's long tradition of underground death metal brutality to bear with punishing, hook-driven riff work.
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