I guess I'll start updating the topic every once in a while when a stellar album in the scene drops or when I've added a significant amount of individual songs.

Yesterday saw the release of the amazing debut album Altered Realities by the Norwegian death-thrashers Sovereign, released via Dark Descent Records. I found the music to be great to the extent that I added most of the songs to the Nordic & Baltic Thrash Metal Forces playlist.

Another noteworthy thrash album by the Swedish band Xion has been released on January 19th. Added a few songs to the Nordic & Baltic Thrash Metal Forces playlist. I've been listening to the list in the past few days and adding more songs by standout bands, as well as swapping some questionable tracks for better ones if I felt that the initial choice was not that great. There are also two songs by Darkthrone in the list now, as the album "The Underground Resistance" is quite thrashy indeed. If you know about any other bands that lack the "thrash" tag in MA, but have great songs that could be categorized as such then by all means, let me know (but no groove metal or metalcore please). Sort by newest first to find anything that has been added in the past couple of days. Also, hooray – the landmark of a 100 playlist followers has already been surpassed and it's steadily rising!