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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
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Crossover/thrash metal band from Norwich, England, active since 2019. Their motorized name accompanies high-velocity crossover thrash from East Anglia.
San Diego's Rod of Correction have been running crossover thrash into hardcore territory since 2018, combining the pit-ready energy of West Coast punk with the riffing attack of thrash metal in the tradition of bands like D.R.I. and Municipal Waste. They bring Southern California sun and aggression to a style that has never gone out of fashion among the mosh-inclined.
Rough Justice was a crossover thrash/hardcore band from Aalst, Belgium, whose 1988 demo tape 'Pink Elephants in Yellow Trees' captured the raw energy of the Belgian underground HC/thrash scene of that decade. The band featured Koen Taeleman on vocals, Piet Marcoen on guitar, Manu Cambier on bass, and Joost Van Den Broeck on drums.
Ferrara crossover/thrash metal act formed in 2019, fusing aggressive riffing with hardcore punk energy from Emilia-Romagna. Their pit-ready approach channels the confrontational spirit of the crossover tradition.
Rumble Militia is a crossover thrash metal band from Bremen, Germany, reformed in 2020 with a politically conscious approach. Their 2020 album Set the World on Fire features tracks like Athens is Burning and No Nazis, delivering punked-out metal with attitude and message.
Régimen Secreto is a thrash metal and crossover band from Pontevedra in Galicia, northwestern Spain, formed in 2023. Named 'Secret Regime' in Spanish, the band fuses thrash with crossover punk from the Galician coast.
S.I. deliver thrash metal and crossover from the Estonian university city of Tartu, combining aggressive velocity with punk's raw energy. Formed in 2022, they bring fresh thrash to the Baltic metal scene.
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San Diego's Santa Claus have been weaponizing crossover thrash since 2014 with gleeful disregard for seasonal associations — their name a provocation, their music the delivery system. The band channels the West Coast's crossover tradition into fast, funny, and legitimately hard-hitting thrash that doesn't sacrifice aggression for the joke.
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