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Procul His (2024)
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Mortuorum (2023)
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Featured Black Metal/Punk Album
Entrecruces (2024)
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Thrash metal band from Fredrikstad, southeastern Norway, formed in 2019. Cold Response delivers aggressive thrash from the Østfold region.
Heavy metal band from the Iserlohn/Lunen area of Westphalia, Germany, active since 2011. They forge classic heavy metal with strong riffs from the Sauerland foothills.
Doom-sludge act from Kyiv, formed in 2017. Cold Shell delivers crushing, oppressive heaviness from the Ukrainian capital.
Cold Slither plays heavy metal rooted in the blue-collar, blue-collar tradition of 80s power and traditional metal, a band that wears its genre love plainly and makes no pretense about it.
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina's Cold Spine bridges deathcore's breakneck heaviness with death metal's technical darkness, bringing a coastal Southern brutality that has nothing to do with the tourist strip.
Groove-thrash metal band from Pockau in the Erzgebirge, Germany, formed in 2016. They blend heavy grooves with thrash aggression from the Saxon mountain region.
Tampa's Cold Steel emerged from Florida's hardcore and thrash crossover scene, bringing the pit mentality of hardcore crashing into the riff-forward intensity of thrash — fast, mean, and built for live destruction.
Seattle's Cold Steele draws from classic heavy metal tradition, occupying the same Pacific Northwest metal underground that quietly sustained the genre through lean years in one of America's most musically restless cities.
Connecticut's Cold Sweat mined the fertile late-80s heavy metal vein of the Northeast corridor, playing melodic, hook-driven metal with a gritty sincerity common to the era's club circuit.
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