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Necromanteum (2023)
Featured Black Metal Album
Vertigo (Sunbather: 10th Anniversary Remix / Remaster) (2023)
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Featured Power Metal Album
We Three Kings (Metal Holiday) (2015)
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Soul Waster is a Los Angeles band formed in 2019 that combines grindcore's ferocity with thrash metal's riff-driven aggression. Their crossover approach channels the raw speed and punk-inflected energy that defines the LA extreme underground.
Sound Cancer is a power/thrash metal band from Oceanside, California, formed in 2005, fusing the melodic precision of power metal with the crunching aggression of thrash across two decades of activity.
Speed Demon is a thrash/speed metal band from Monterey, California, formed in 2022, drawing on punk-infused speed metal in the mold of early Motörhead and Agent Steel, favoring raw velocity and stripped-down song structures.
SpeedBurner is a speed/thrash metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2019, playing fast, stripped-down metal informed by the early 1980s speed metal tradition and classic thrash aggression.
Spellbinder is a power metal band from Oakland, California, formed in 2001, delivering soaring, melodically driven power metal with the high-register vocals and twin-guitar harmonies characteristic of the American power metal style.
Split Image is a heavy and thrash metal band from Campbell, California, formed in 2019, playing riff-driven traditional metal with a thrash edge rooted in the Bay Area's storied history with the genre.
Stand Accused is a San Jose, California thrash metal band formed in 2014, playing aggressive Bay Area-rooted thrash that carries on the ferocious, riff-heavy tradition of the region's legendary scene.
Stellardeth is a thrash metal band from San Francisco, California, formed in 2017. They carry forward the Bay Area thrash tradition with aggressive riffing and technically driven arrangements rooted in the city's storied metal lineage.
Stigmata is a death/thrash metal band from Escondido, California, formed in 2008. They work within the aggressive tradition of West Coast death/thrash, combining the technical attack of thrash metal with the darker, heavier textures of death metal.
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