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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Crossover thrash/hardcore band from Aarschot in Flemish Brabant, active since 2017, blending the speed of thrash metal with hardcore's confrontational energy. Their crossover approach creates a high-energy fusion that bridges metal and punk communities.
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Portland, Oregon crossover thrash band formed in 2024, fusing hardcore punk's raw energy with thrash metal's technical riffing in the city's active heavy underground scene.
Stuck blend progressive thrash metal with crossover and hardcore from Lower Saxony, creating a volatile hybrid that refuses to be confined to a single style. Active since 2018, they bring genre-bending aggression to the North German underground.
Subversion Trigger is a Seattle-based crossover thrash band formed in 2025, merging the speed and hostility of thrash metal with the raw punch of hardcore in the Pacific Northwest underground.
Sudden Loss is an Oakland, California band formed in 2017 that operates in the overlap between crossover thrash, death metal, and hardcore, combining Bay Area aggression with a menacing death metal edge.
Suffer No Fools is a crossover thrash/hardcore band from Houghton, Michigan, formed in 2022, bringing aggressive, high-energy thrash and hardcore to Michigan's Upper Peninsula underground.
Superjoint — formerly Superjoint Ritual — are a New Orleans, Louisiana sludge metal and crossover thrash band that reformed in 2016, co-founded by Pantera and Down vocalist Philip Anselmo, combining the grinding aggression of crossover thrash with the thick, swampy heaviness of the New Orleans sludge tradition.
Supernatural Deathray is a crossover thrash act formed in 2022, delivering the high-velocity riff attack and punk-infused aggression characteristic of the genre's New York roots.
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