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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Green Man Rising (Demo) (2017)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Intense Southern / Groove Metal / Metalcore from Austin.
Grind-thrash act from Stella Santa Giustina in Savona province, Liguria, formed in 2019. Critical Condition fuses grindcore intensity with thrash metal riffing from the Ligurian hills.
Thrash metal band from Bergamo, Lombardy, formed in 2025. Critical Damage brings fresh thrash energy to the Italian scene.
Hot Springs, Arkansas extreme metal band merging black metal atmosphere with death metal brutality and deathcore breakdowns, occupying the harshest corners of the Arkansas underground.
Technical death-thrash act from Moscow, formed in 2019. Critical Extravasation — a medical term for bleeding — delivers precise, technically demanding extreme metal.
Critical Fear is a thrash metal band from Iracemápolis, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2008–2009. Signed to Thrash or Death Records, the band focuses on political and social themes and has released multiple records including Conflicts (2011), Alone (2016), and A Real Danger (2022).
Heavy metal band from Geneva, Switzerland, formed in 2018. They deliver hard-hitting, riff-driven heavy metal with strong hooks and driving energy.
Thrash metal band from Węgrów in eastern Masovia, active since 2013. Critical Insanity has spent over a decade delivering aggressive thrash from the Polish countryside.
Thrash metal band from Orleans, France, formed in 2020. They deliver aggressive thrash from the Loire Valley capital.
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