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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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West Yorkshire-based thrash/groove metal act active since 2012, anchoring their riff-driven assault in mid-tempo grooves that demand involuntary headbanging. Their compositions balance thrash metal's speed with the crushing rhythmic weight of groove metal.
Samara-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2013, delivering relentless blastbeat-driven punishment and guttural vocal extremity. Their compositions trade in the genre's heaviest currency: slamming breakdowns, inhuman vocals, and wall-to-wall brutality.
Edinburgh-based death metal act with hardcore/crust influences, active since 2024. Their crossover approach bridges the mosh pit and the blast beat with equal conviction, pairing death metal's heaviness with punk's confrontational directness.
Finnish death metal and goregrind band from Joensuu, formed in 2025. They deliver blistering death-grind from eastern Finland.
German heavy/speed/thrash metal band from Hamburg, active since 2005. They draw from three strands of classic metal for a fast, powerful, and versatile sound.
German thrash metal band from Rothenburg, formed in 2023. They deliver lightning-fast thrash metal befitting their electrifying name.
Blitzkid is a horror punk band from Bluefield, West Virginia, formed in early 1997 by vocalist/guitarist TB Monstrosity and vocalist/bassist Argyle Goolsby, drawing directly from the Misfits template of B-movie imagery and melodic hardcore. The duo released five studio albums between 1999 and 2012, logged 260 live dates in 2006 alone, and performed at Germany's Summer Breeze Open Air festival before 40,000 people in 2007. AllMusic noted the pair's melodic vocal approach as a standout quality in the horror punk subgenre; the band broke up in 2012 and reformed in 2020.
Newcastle NWOBHM veterans formed in 1980, best known for their landmark A Time of Changes album and the self-titled track that Metallica famously covered on their 1984 Creeping Death single. They've continued releasing material through the decades, including Sins and Greed and Absolute Power.
Blitzkrieg is a raw black metal band from Mossoró, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, formed in 2002 and now split-up. The band operated independently within the Brazilian underground black metal scene, releasing material through their Bandcamp page before ceasing activity.
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