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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Vicious Brewery is a thrash metal band from Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, formed in 2023. They play aggressive, party-fueled thrash metal in the tradition of crossover-tinged German thrash.
Chicago's Vicious Circle have been delivering heavy metal with a blue-collar directness since 2017, drawing on the Windy City's long tradition of no-frills rock and steel. Their sound locks into a groove and refuses to let go.
Wilmington, Delaware's Vicious Embrace have spent a decade weaponizing the collision between hardcore's raw aggression and metalcore's technical drive. The band's name doubles as a mission statement — they pull you close and then punish you for it.
Vicious Knights is a thrash/death metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, formed in 2016. They combine thrash metal's speed with death metal's heaviness from Greece's second city.
Stockholm's Vicious Saint plays classic heavy metal with a swagger and attitude rooted in the NWOBHM tradition, delivering hook-laden riffs and powerful vocals. Their straightforward, no-frills approach channels the golden age of British and European metal.
Victasrelm is a black metal project from Kent, England. They channel atmospheric black metal from the English southeast.
Intense Melodic Groove Metal / Metalcore out of Texas.
Houston's Victim have been grinding out pit-ready thrash metal since 2013, carrying on the Gulf Coast tradition of riff-first, no-apologies heaviness. Their approach is blunt and direct — all downstroke fury and snapped-neck tempos.
Milwaukee's Victim deal in the turbocharged intersection of speed metal and thrash, where the BPM never drops and the riffs pile up like a freeway crash. Since 2013, they've been one of the Midwest's most reliable sources of pure kinetic damage.
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