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Queens, New York City's Revoltage bring the borough's hardscrabble street energy to thrash metal, forging riffs that carry the density of New York hardcore's influence but the technical aggression of classic thrash. New York has a long and proud tradition of metal that hits harder and faster than its geographic peers, and Revoltage inherit that tradition with no shortage of ferocity. Their music is city-forged and uncompromising — the kind of thrash that feels like it was written on a subway platform.
Maryland's Revolted Excrescence arrived in 2021 trafficking in the most putrid end of old-school death metal — goregrind-adjacent in its devotion to grotesque aesthetics and primitive, cavern-dwelling sound design. The name alone signals what kind of death metal this is: not clinical or technical, but deliberately excessive and confrontational in the finest traditions of the genre's most extreme practitioners. Maryland's underground has always had room for bands willing to push into truly depraved territory, and Revolted Excrescence occupy that space without apology.
Progressive death/thrash metal band from Athens, Greece, active since 2009. Their politically charged name accompanies technically complex extreme metal across more than fifteen years.
Reykjavik black metal project active since 2011, contributing to Iceland's internationally celebrated extreme metal scene. Their sound carries the volcanic intensity that has made Icelandic black metal a force in the global underground.
Revolting is a Swedish death metal band from Gamleby, led by prolific death metal figure Rogga Johansson alongside Tobias and Martin. Their seventh album 'The Shadow At The World's End' is considered the band at peak form, blending classic Swedish melodies with brute force, groove, and memorability.
Groove metal band from Bologna, Italy, active since 2018. Their revolutionary name accompanies rhythmically driven groove metal from the Emilia-Romagna capital.
Revolution Renaissance is a power metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2010. The band delivers classic European power metal from the Finnish capital.
Thrash/groove metal band from Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, active since 2012. Their approach blends thrash velocity with groove metal's rhythmic drive from the northern Portuguese town.
Death/thrash metal and metalcore band from Glasgow, Scotland, active since 2017. Their triple-genre approach combines death metal heaviness, thrash velocity, and metalcore breakdowns from Scotland's largest city.
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