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Heavy metal and thrash band from Livadia, Greece launched in 2024. They deliver electrifying metal from central Greece.
Electro Hippies were a thrashcore and early grindcore band formed in St Helens/Wigan, England in 1985, notable for including Jeff Walker — later of Carcass — in their ranks. Their politically charged, blisteringly fast material advocated for animal rights and opposed vivisection, with tracks frequently lasting under a minute. The band recorded a Peel Session in 1987 and released a handful of LPs and EPs before disbanding in 1989, leaving an outsized influence on the emerging crust and grindcore scenes.
Albuquerque's Electrocuted have been welding death and thrash metal together since 2018 in a city not known for extreme music, making their existence a small but defiant entry in the New Mexico underground.
The Italian city of Salerno serves as headquarters for this thrash metal operation, whose arsenal includes galloping rhythms and shredding leads that recall metal's golden age. Razor-edged guitar tone and barked vocals recall thrash's golden era.
Oakland's Electromancy bring a technical precision to black metal that sets them apart from the Bay Area pack — formed in 2020, they channel the city's intellectual extremity into densely constructed, technically demanding compositions.
Electrozombies are a Santiago trio — Comegato on guitar and vocals, Marcela Z on fuzz bass, and Paola Z on drums — playing a down-tuned blend of old-school death metal, sludge, and crust. Their discography includes the 2013 full-length Skull of Chaos and the 2024 album Ancestral Terror, with the band drawing conceptual inspiration from consumerism, electrification, and slow, putrid heaviness.
Death metal and grindcore act from Riihimaki, Finland. They deliver raw, grinding extremity from southern Finland.
New York's Elefantkiller blend crossover thrash with straight-up thrash metal into something loud, chaotic, and absurdly fun — the band's name says everything about their commitment to over-the-top heaviness since 2013.
A product of Italy's deep-rooted extreme metal underground, this Reggio Emilia-based power metal and symphonic metal act channels cinematic sweep and operatic vocals over thundering metal arrangements. Active since 2018, the combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
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