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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Agonia is a death/thrash metal band from Los Angeles with an extraordinarily prolific output — fourteen releases since 2024 alone. The project's relentless pace includes multiple full-lengths, EPs, and singles that suggest either a deep well of material or a one-person creative torrent.
Agonization merges black and thrash metal from the French underground since 2013, creating a volatile hybrid that draws from two of extreme metal's most aggressive traditions. Their pain-themed name captures the torment at the core of their music.
Agony Forge is a thrash/power metal and melodic death metal band from Madison, Wisconsin. Their 2021 EP "The Sleepy Sessions" offers a brief but energetic glimpse of the band's genre-crossing approach.
Agony Reigns is a thrash metal and metalcore band from the Minneapolis/Saint Paul area of Minnesota. Their 2017 "Powerhouse Demo" captures the raw early energy of a Twin Cities crossover act.
Agresia thrashes with hardcore from Žilina in northwestern Slovakia since 2015. Their Slovak name for 'aggression' drives a decade of punk-influenced thrash from this Váh River industrial city.
Madrid's Agresiva spent over a decade unleashing ferocious thrash metal driven by Samuel San José's vocals and Miguel Coello's razor-sharp guitar work. Albums like "Pánico escénico" and "Decibel Ritual" tackled themes of war, politics, and personal experience with the intensity the band's name promises.
Thrash metal band from Fortaleza, Ceará, formed in 2023. A very new entry into the northeast Brazilian metal scene, playing in the aggressive, riff-heavy thrash tradition that has long been a staple of Brazilian extreme metal.
Agressor is a heavy and power metal band from New York City. With four releases between 2018 and 2021 — including the full-lengths "Medieval Rites" and "Neverending Destiny" — the band plays classic-styled power metal with an epic, medieval flair.
Thrash metal band from Macaé, Rio de Janeiro, with roots tracing back to a veteran act of the same name founded in 1982 in that city — one of Brazil's earliest thrash outfits. The band recorded demo tapes including 'Destruição Metálica' (1986) and 'Kill or Die' (1988, later reissued on vinyl), singing in Portuguese with hardcore-influenced vocals over raw thrash riffs before disbanding and eventually reconvening.
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