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AntiFragile (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Thrash metal and metalcore band from Padua, Italy, active since 2022. Their crossover sound blends thrash metal's speed with metalcore's dynamic breakdowns.
Turin-based band that began as thrash metal in 2012 before evolving toward metalcore and alternative rock. Their stylistic evolution reflects an adventurous approach to heavy music that has taken them beyond their thrash metal origins.
Metalcore band from Vigo in Galicia, Spain, bringing intense breakdowns and aggressive energy to the northwestern Spanish metal scene since 2023. Their sound channels metalcore's characteristic blend of hardcore aggression with metal's technical precision.
Metalcore and thrash metal band from Stavanger, Norway, active since 2008 with nearly two decades of experience. Their sound bridges metalcore's dynamic structures with thrash metal's aggressive speed.
Veteran San Diego outfit Unbroken have existed in the space between hardcore and metalcore since 1993, outlasting countless trends and scene shifts through sheer conviction. One of the longer-running acts in the American hardcore-adjacent underground, they bring decades of battle-hardened intensity.
Melodic heavy metal band from Wilhelmshaven, Germany, drawing from NWOBHM traditions with hooks, groovy power metal elements, and Iron Maiden-inspired arrangements. Their catalog includes releases like The Guardian's Call, Fallen Kingdom, and Last Man Standing, delivering classic metal with modern energy.
Thrash/death metal band formed in São Paulo in 2005, later relocating to Brooklyn, New York. The lineup of Frederico Carneiro (vocals), Patrick Caracas and Kiko Freiberg (guitars), Fadel Dabien (bass), and Daniel Freiberg (drums) released the EP Mind's Corner in 2012, followed by the full-length Shooting at the Moon in December 2014 and the album Let it Rain in September 2016.
Melodic groove metal and metalcore band from Dedemsvaart, the Netherlands, active since 2020. Their sound combines groove metal's rhythmic power with metalcore's dynamic hooks and melodic sensibility.
Atlanta's Undead Viking Mafia began as a metalcore act and gradually shifted toward a rougher, groove-heavy Southern metal sound as the years went on — an evolution that suits their name's chaotic energy. Active since 2007, they occupy a peculiar and entertaining niche in Georgia's heavy music underground.
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