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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
05/07 @ House of Blues Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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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.
Source of Pain is a Phoenix, Arizona crossover/thrash metal band formed in 2024, blending the hardcore aggression of crossover with straight-ahead thrash metal speed in the tradition of the genre's most frenetic practitioners.
Soured Ground is a Syracuse, New York band formed in 2016 that straddles thrash metal, crossover, and crust punk, embodying the raw, politically charged energy where the hardcore and metal underground intersect.
Spare Change is a crossover thrash band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 2015. They operate squarely in the tradition where thrash metal collides with hardcore punk, delivering the fast, irreverent, and abrasive energy that has defined the crossover genre since the 1980s.
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