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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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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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Astarot plays heavy and thrash metal from Rzeszów since 2011. Named after the demon Astaroth, they channel infernal energy through the classic dual format of heavy and thrash metal from the Subcarpathian capital.
Astarot is a one-man black metal project from Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico, founded in 2010 and signed to Sun Empire Productions. The project is remarkably prolific, having released dozens of full-lengths, EPs, and splits across its career, exploring themes of nature, nostalgia, melancholy, and astral introspection.
Thessaloniki's Astenia channel exhaustion and depletion (their name is Greek for 'weakness') into furious thrash metal that contradicts their moniker with relentless energy. Active since 2012, they've been a persistent force in the northern Greek thrash scene.
Asterium has been fusing death and thrash metal from the medieval Catalan town of Castelló d'Empúries since 2011. Their dual-genre approach brings both technical ferocity and velocity to the Alt Empordà's metal scene.
Colonia, New Jersey thrash metal act with two releases since 2011. Earthly Welking — an archaic term for the heavenly vault — adds literary depth to their Jersey thrash.
Astrahan plays heavy and thrash metal from Ankara since 2011. Over fifteen years from the Turkish capital, they channel the martial energy of their city — named after ancient Ancyra — through classic metal aggression.
Oakland thrash metal veterans whose 1995 demo predates the modern underground by decades. A piece of East Bay thrash history from the Bay Area's golden age.
Thessaloniki's Astrarot deliver a volatile cocktail of death metal, thrash, and metalcore, shifting between technical precision and pit-ready aggression. Since 2015, they've been a high-energy presence in the northern Greek metal scene.
Astray is a melodic thrash metal and metalcore band from Bergen auf Rugen, the island town on the Baltic Sea in Germany, formed in 2017. The band fuses thrash metal's speed and technical precision with metalcore's breakdown-driven intensity from one of Germany's most uniquely situated metal communities.
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