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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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To Serve Man (2002)
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Melodic death metal band from Plymouth, England formed in 2023. War Shepherd delivers Scandinavian-style melodic death metal from the naval port city on England's southern coast.
Coming out of Vinton, Virginia in 2025, War Theory arrived fully formed with a blend of thrash, death, and groove metal that sounds like it has been cooking for years. Their approach favors the visceral forward momentum of thrash, thickened by death metal's ruthlessness and given a punishing mid-tempo swing by groove. A young band with a clear-eyed sense of exactly the kind of metal they want to make.
Nashville's War Within have been grinding since 2014 in the space where thrash metal's velocity meets groove metal's locked-in rhythmic authority. They bring a working-class directness to their songwriting that feels native to Nashville's DIY culture outside the country industry — muscular, no-frills, and hard to ignore in a live setting. The groove is the weapon; the thrash is the delivery system.
Metalcore band from Dundee, Scotland active since 2014. War Within brings intense metalcore to the Scottish underground with heavy breakdowns and aggressive vocal delivery.
Black metal band from Lens, France active since 2015. Warage delivers raw black metal from the former mining region of Pas-de-Calais in northern France.
Power and thrash metal band from Bordeaux, France active since 2012. Warattah combines the melodic ambition of power metal with thrash's cutting aggression from France's wine capital.
Thrash metal band from Newcastle upon Tyne, England formed in 2019. Warbastard delivers raw, uncompromising thrash from the industrial heartland of northeast England.
San Antonio thrash metal. Signed to Phil Anselmo's Housecore Records, delivering punishing modern thrash.
Warbiff is a thrash metal trio from Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, built around guitarist and vocalist Daniel Biff alongside bassist Pedro Torres and drummer Rômulo Shaw. The band released the eight-track mini-CD Fresh Meat in 2006 and placed second in the 2010 Wacken Metal Battle selection in São Paulo, earning a reputation across Brazil for their fast and unrelenting sound.
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