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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
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Louisville, Kentucky thrash metal project with two releases since 2012. The Theom EP and single Lenticularz bring experimental edge to Kentucky's heavy underground, the astronomical name fitting their heavenly ambitions.
Yuba City/Sacramento metalcore and thrash project with an impressive eleven releases since 2019. Albums like Eclipse and Fusion demonstrate a prolific output spanning multiple stylistic approaches from the Sacramento Valley.
At the Front is a groove/thrash metal band from Wevelgem, West Flanders, originally formed in 1993 before going on hiatus and reforming in 2014. They play a hard-hitting mix of thrash and groove metal rooted in the Belgian working-class metal tradition of the West Flanders region.
Portland thrash band tearing through the Rose City's metal scene with aggressive speed and precision, adding to the Pacific Northwest's versatile heavy music output.
Virginia Beach speed/thrash metal project. A blunt, two-word mission statement from Hampton Roads' metal underground.
Thrash metal band from Três Corações, Minas Gerais, founded in 2008 by guitarist Iuri Grégori, channeling the raw intensity of the Brazilian mining-region metal scene of the 1980s and 90s. Their lyrics address social inequality, corruption, and alienation — entirely in Portuguese — across three albums: "Infernal Massacre" (2008), "World Chaos" (2010), and "Extermínio" (2015), the latter released on Metal Soldiers Records with a marked old-school thrash/death metal edge.
Liverpool groove-thrash newcomers Atanamir burst onto the scene in 2024 with riff-driven metal that balances Pantera-style groove with precision thrash attack. Their Tolkien-inspired name hints at epic ambitions beneath the pit-ready aggression.
Atanatos is a black and thrash metal band from Jena, Germany, active since 1997, whose sound evolved from pure black metal into a more thrash-influenced direction over nearly three decades of activity. As one of Thuringia's longest-running extreme metal acts, the band has witnessed the genre's evolution firsthand from the late nineties onward.
Atapaskan merges thrash and death metal from Adana in southern Turkey since 2012. Named after the Native American language family, they bring cross-cultural linguistic identity to over a decade of extreme metal from Turkey's Mediterranean agricultural heartland.
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