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Groove-thrash metal band from Greece, formed in 2019. They combine heavy grooves with thrash speed and aggression.
Thrash metal band from Medvode near Ljubljana, active since 2000. Classified has been a fixture of Slovenian thrash for over a quarter century.
Depressive black metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2017. They craft bleak, emotionally devastating black metal steeped in despair.
Claustro is a groove metal band from Buenos Aires and Hurlingham, Argentina, formed in 2011 by guitarist and vocalist Cristian Karpluk alongside guitarist Mariano Valsecchi, bassist Dante Roncali, and drummer Juan Marcelo Hernández Herrero. The band has released three studio albums — Pulsión Animal (2015), H.I.S. (2017), and En el umbral de la extinción (2020) — building a catalog that blends groove and thrash metal with hard rock influences.
Claustrofobia is a death/thrash metal trio from Leme, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 1993, and widely regarded as one of the most important underground extreme metal bands to emerge from Brazil. The band has toured extensively through South America, Europe, and the United States — sharing stages with Slayer, Iron Maiden, Sepultura, and Napalm Death — and has released a string of albums including "Fulminant" (2005), "I See Red" (2009), and "Unleeched" (2022).
Black metal project from Győr, Hungary, formed in 2021. Claustrophiliac explores themes of confinement and dread through suffocating black metal atmospheres.
Thrash metal band from Conselve near Padua, active since 2008. Claustrophobia has spent over fifteen years delivering aggressive thrash from the Veneto region.
Death metal act from the Trieste and Gorizia border area, formed in 2023. Claustrum — Latin for 'enclosure' — crafts confining, suffocating death metal from Italy's far northeast.
Vero Beach, FL solo black metal project Claux conjures austere, lo-fi darkness rooted in the rawest traditions of the genre. Stripping the music down to its most primitive and menacing essence, Claux operates well outside the mainstream metal underground.
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