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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
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Kadıköy-based thrash metal act active since 2024, delivering riff-driven aggression rooted in the genre's foundational principles of speed, precision, and relentless energy. Their material channels the spirit of 1980s thrash through a Turkish filter.
Death/thrash outfit from Fano (Pesaro and Urbino), formed in 2011. Their sound channels the raw energy of 1980s thrash through death metal's heavier lens, pairing aggressive vocals with riff-centric compositions.
Thrash, black, and death metal band from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, formed in 2021. They channel the darkness of the Balkans through a volatile fusion of three extreme metal subgenres.
Czech thrash metal band from Kojetín, formed in 2012, whose sound has evolved from thrash metal roots toward a nu-metal influenced direction in later material.
German thrash/heavy metal band from Hildesheim, formed in 2013. They blend thrash metal's aggressive edge with traditional heavy metal foundations.
Betrayal is a thrash metal band from Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, formed in 2007 and still active. The band's lyrical themes cover war, politics, and destruction, placing them within the aggressive tradition of Brazilian thrash. They have released demo recordings and are listed on Encyclopaedia Metallum.
Death/thrash metal band from Puch, Austria, formed in 2019. They merge the precision of thrash with death metal's brutality in a cross-genre assault.
Betrayer is a heavy and thrash metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, formed in 2019 and currently active. Based in one of Brazil's most historically significant metal cities, the band draws on the Brazilian heavy and thrash tradition rooted in the scene that produced acts like Sepultura and Sarcófago. They are catalogued on Encyclopaedia Metallum.
Kraków-based crossover thrash act active since 2020, smashing together thrash metal's riff-driven velocity with punk's stripped-down aggression and DIY ethos. Their short, sharp compositions hit with the impact of a circle pit in a phone booth.
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