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Metalizator is a Slovenian heavy metal project formed in 2021. The project delivers classic-style metal with the machine-like precision their name implies.
Metalkimista is a heavy/thrash metal band from Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego — one of the southernmost metal acts in Argentina. Their debut album La Sabia Destrucción, a twelve-track record mixed and mastered by Martín Vargas at La Mazmorra studio in Río Grande, was released on September 29, 2018.
Metalkrüsa is a heavy and thrash metal band from Ceuta, Spain, formed in 2024. They forge heavy thrash from the Spanish exclave on the North African coast.
Metall is a heavy metal band from Berlin, Germany, delivering what they call "blazing true metal" across albums "Metal Heads" (2017) and "Metal Fire" (2019), with a new release slated for 2026. They are scheduled to perform at the RockCity Berlin festival, cementing their status in the capital's thrash and traditional metal scene.
Metall Fort is a heavy-thrash metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2018. Their discography includes a self-titled release plus the EPs 'Fantàstic!!!' and 'Universalitat,' delivering an energetic blend of heavy and thrash metal rooted in the Catalan underground.
Active in Chicago since 2014, Metallian combine the muscular riff work of traditional heavy metal with the soaring ambition of power metal, crafting music that hits hard while reaching for epic melodic territory. They occupy a well-defined space in the city's metal underground, balancing aggression with the kind of anthem-ready hooks that power metal demands.
Metalliance is based in Pinhais, a city in the immediate metropolitan ring of Curitiba and effectively part of the same metal ecosystem that has sustained the Paraná capital's scene for decades. Curitiba's underground has long had a distinct character relative to the southeastern axis: cooler in climate and tone, more open to European traditional and power-metal influence than the tribal-thrash and death-metal directions that dominate São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, and home to bands ranging from the long-running classic-heavy outfits of the 1990s to the more recent groove and melodic-death wave. Metalliance works the heavy/thrash crossover lane that is one of Curitiba's natural specialties, drawing on the Bay Area thrash playbook and the NWOBHM-rooted heavy-metal tradition in roughly equal measure. The 2020 album Going So Far Beyond is the band's flagship statement, and like much of the contemporary Paraná heavy-thrash output it favors riff economy, traditional song structures, and the kind of melodic lead playing that connects more directly to Maiden and Megadeth than to the blasting extremity of the country's death-metal mainstream. The lineup, anchored by guitarist-vocalist Willians Lino and bassist Alexandre Filipi, has built a small but consistent catalog of singles and longer releases through the late 2010s and into the 2020s, working the same regional circuit of clubs, festivals, and tribute nights that supports neighboring Curitiba acts. Pinhais itself is the kind of dormitory city whose cultural life bleeds directly into the central capital, and Metalliance is functionally a Greater Curitiba band: representative of the steady, classic-leaning Paraná heavy-thrash scene that operates without much international visibility but keeps the southern Brazilian metal calendar moving.
Metallica formed in Los Angeles in October 1981 and relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1983, where they became the standard-bearer for American thrash metal. Their early run — Kill 'Em All (1983), Ride the Lightning (1984), and Master of Puppets (1986) — codified the genre's blueprint, and bassist Cliff Burton's death in 1986 marked one of metal's most consequential losses. The 1991 self-titled Black Album moved them into arenas and became one of the best-selling albums in history. Co-founded by drummer Lars Ulrich and vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield, with Kirk Hammett on lead guitar and Robert Trujillo on bass, Metallica stands alongside Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax as the Big Four of thrash.
A death metal act from the southeastern Finnish town of Hamina near the Russian border, Metallijate has been operating in the underground since 2015. The band's Finnish-language name, roughly meaning 'metalheads,' signals their commitment to no-frills death metal.
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