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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Smash Potater is a crossover thrash band from Aurora, Illinois, formed in 2011, combining the speed and aggression of thrash metal with the punk-driven rawness of crossover in a deliberately irreverent package.
Formed in 2017 in Clifton, New Jersey, Snag tears through crossover thrash and death metal with a raw, pit-ready sound indebted equally to D.R.I. and early Morbid Angel.
Named after the iconic John Carpenter antihero, this Moberly, Missouri band formed in 2017 and plays groove-inflected crossover thrash with a streetwise, pit-tested energy.
San Antonio, Texas thrash and crossover band formed in 2014, delivering hard-charging riffs and a raw intensity consistent with the city's long-running extreme metal tradition.
Social Decline deliver thrash metal and crossover from Copenhagen, channeling societal critique through high-velocity riffing. Active since 2010, they bring politically charged aggression to the Danish capital's heavy scene.
Podolsk's Social Discord pair crossover thrash with standard thrash from the Moscow suburbs since 2021. Their name of societal fracture channels the breakdown of collective harmony into pit-ready compositions of suburban aggression.
New York crossover thrash and hardcore band formed in 2024, channeling the raw, circle-pit energy of early thrash and punk-metal fusion into a modern register.
Blistering Groove / Thrash Metal / Crossover (early); Alternative Metal / Rock (later) from Houston.
Soul Divided is a Louisville, Kentucky crossover thrash band formed in 2017, blending the aggression of hardcore punk with thrash metal riffing in the tradition of classic crossover acts.
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