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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Featured Grindcore Album
The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Toscolano-Maderno (Brescia)-based thrash metal act active since 2021, delivering riff-driven aggression rooted in the genre's foundational principles of speed, precision, and relentless energy. Their material channels the spirit of 1980s thrash through a Italian filter.
Thrash metal outfit from Athens, formed in 2021. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
German heavy metal band from Schweinfurt, formed in 2024. They play classic heavy metal from the Franconian industrial heartland.
French raw black metal project formed in 2022. They deliver corpse-bloody raw black metal from the French underground.
Sludge metal outfit from London, formed in 2016. Their music moves with the grinding inevitability of industrial machinery, all corroded tones and barely controlled fury.
Spanish stoner metal and rock band from Valencia, formed in 2019. They channel Conan-inspired stoner metal from the Mediterranean coast.
German thrash metal band from Baden-Baden, formed in 2014. They deliver fast, aggressive thrash metal from the Black Forest spa town.
Thessaloniki-based death/thrash metal act active since 2013, fusing death metal's guttural intensity with thrash's riff-driven velocity and rhythmic precision. Their high-energy approach delivers the heaviness of death metal married to thrash's urgent momentum.
German thrash metal band from North Rhine-Westphalia, formed in 2017. They play straightforward, flesh-ripping thrash metal.
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