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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Moscow, Idaho's The Swelbows attack crossover thrash with the no-frills velocity you'd expect from a band equally indebted to hardcore punk and vintage speed metal, formed in 2013 in a college town far from the traditional crossover hubs. Their music is short, fast, and built for the pit.
Saint Paul's The Terrordactyls have been thrashing with a crossover sensibility since 2006, blending classic thrash metal speed with hardcore punk's abrasive attitude and short-song discipline in a city with a long-running punk and metal underground. They are a durable fixture of the Twin Cities extreme scene with a name that matches their irreverent, high-velocity approach.
New York crossover veterans This Is Hell have been tearing through the divide between hardcore and thrash since 2004, delivering fast, punishing sets that owe as much to the NYHC tradition as to Bay Area thrash.
Phoenix, Arizona crossover thrash outfit formed in 2022, fusing the speed and aggression of thrash metal with the stripped-down, confrontational energy of hardcore punk in the tradition of bands who treated the two genres as naturally overlapping rather than distinct.
Thrashgrinder is a thrash metal/crossover band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2010. They fuse thrash metal's speed with crossover punk energy.
Lansing, Michigan crossover thrash veterans formed in 2006, one of the longer-running bands in the style — their two-decade-plus commitment to the genre speaks to a deep investment in the intersection of hardcore punk's rawness and thrash metal's precision.
Thrashsquatch! from Chesterfield deliver crossover and thrash metal with the cryptozoological enthusiasm their Bigfoot-referencing name demands since 2017. Their Derbyshire base channels the myth of the sasquatch through riff-driven, exclamation-point energy.
Thrashtalk from Cherbourg-Octeville on the Cotentin Peninsula deliver thrash metal crossover with the confrontational bravado their rap-referencing name suggests since 2018. Their Norman Atlantic-coast base provides a rugged backdrop for their trash-talking thrash.
Oakland, California outfit formed in 2018 who fuse stoner metal's hazy, fuzz-drenched weight with crossover thrash's punk-inflected velocity — a pairing that captures something of the Bay Area's tradition of genre-blending heaviness.
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