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San Quentin play thrash metal from Euskirchen, named after the notorious California prison in keeping with thrash's tradition of borrowing from American counterculture. Their Rhineland output channels old-school thrash aggression with a modern German edge.
Thrash metal band from Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, formed in 2016. The band — featuring Pablão on vocals, Bruno Vieira on guitars and bass, and Guilherme Kubaski on drums — released the seven-track EP Carnificina dos Deformados in November 2016, available independently through Bandcamp.
Sanctificetur blend atmospheric black metal with ambient from the Dordogne region of southwestern France, creating immersive compositions from one of France's most rural areas. Formed in 2022, they bring sanctified atmospheres to the Perigord countryside.
Death metal band from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, founded in December 1989. After releasing numerous demos throughout the 1990s and temporarily operating under the name Hellspawn for a 7" EP, the band returned as Sanctifier and released the full-length Daemoncraft in 2012, recorded at Studio R in Natal, followed by Lone Wolf Syndicate in 2018, with lyrics drawing on Lovecraftian themes and the Cthulhu mythos.
Long Island's Sanction have been merging heavy metal's melodic tradition with power metal's bombast and thrash metal's aggression since 2015, producing a sound that feels unmistakably East Coast in its directness. They're part of a New York metal lineage that values both impact and structure, balancing the visceral with the anthemic.
One-person black metal project from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2017 by Nyktophyllus, who handles all instruments and vocals. The project has released four albums: Eucharistica Maledictio (2017), Gloria Malefica (2020), The Soulstalker (2022, issued through Nekrolust Records), and The Dysangelion (2023), all rooted in a self-described Holocaust Satanic Black Metal aesthetic.
Asheville, North Carolina's Sanctity have pursued melodic thrash metal since 2020 with the kind of deliberate craft that sets them apart from pure aggression acts in the genre. Their Appalachian home gives the project a slightly isolated, self-reliant energy, and the melodic ambition they bring to thrash keeps their sound more dynamic than most.
Heavy metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2013 and later split up. The band released the EP Autumn in September 2013 through their Bandcamp page, a four-track recording featuring the songs The Underdogs, Autumn, Images of Self Destruction, and Breaking Free.
Sanctuaire deliver heavy metal from Grenoble, channeling classic metal energy from the French Alps. Active since 2014, they bring mountain-sanctuary intensity to the Dauphine metal scene.
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