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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Fanteria di Prima Linea is a thrash metal and crossover hardcore band from Udine in northeastern Italy, formed in 2019. Their releases Aggressione and Proctology deliver aggressive, politically charged thrash in the Italian language, rooted in the crossover punk tradition.
Lincoln, Nebraska's Fascinus Rex refuse to be pinned to one corner of heavy music — since 2019 they've been throwing together traditional heavy metal, doom, thrash, and crossover into a chaotic and energetic mix that feels genuinely unpredictable. Few bands in the Great Plains wear their eclecticism so unabashedly.
Cleveland's Fascist Insect have been waging sonic war since 2008, fusing the raw political fury of grindcore with the slow-burn punishment of doom and the street-level aggression of crossover. The combination sounds exactly as volatile as it should.
Fatal Collapse is a thrash metal/crossover band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2023. The band fuses thrash metal speed with crossover punk aggression from Germany's second-largest city.
Fatal Collision is a thrash metal/crossover band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2017. The band fuses thrash metal speed with crossover punk energy from Scotland's largest city.
Fatal Facial is a crossover/thrash metal band from Val d'Oise, France, formed in 2020. The band blends crossover punk with thrash metal speed from the northern Île-de-France department.
San Antonio crossover thrash/punk. Wild, funny, and ferocious.
Feutile is a thrash metal/crossover/hardcore band from Molde on Norway's western coast, formed in 2015. They fuse thrash metal velocity with hardcore punk attitude from a small city better known internationally for its annual jazz festival.
Filthy Sons is a death 'n' roll/thrash metal/crossover band from Córdoba, Spain, formed in 2022. The band blends the swagger of death 'n' roll with thrash speed and crossover punk energy from the historic Andalusian city.
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