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Featured Album
Proof (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Dynamic Melodic Groove Metal, Metalcore from Houston.
Thrash metal outfit from Patras, formed in 2020. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
German groove/thrash metal band from Henstedt-Ulzburg near Hamburg, formed in 2014. They blend groove metal's rhythmic punch with thrash metal's speed and intensity.
German thrash/speed metal band from the Oberlungwitz-Chemnitz area in Saxony, formed in 2017. They deliver high-velocity thrash and speed metal from the Saxon underground.
German melodic death/thrash metal band from Solingen, active since 1997. With nearly three decades of experience, they are one of the Bergisches Land's longest-running extreme metal acts.
Edinburgh thrash metal band formed in 2012, focused on progressive, intricate songwriting inspired by early nineties technical thrash rather than eighties nostalgia. Four releases deep from Incinerator through 2025's Scenes of Agony, they deliver complex, ambitious thrash with a no-compromise philosophy.
Relentless Thrash / Groove Metal from Austin.
Thrash metal band from the Isle of Wight, active since 2017. They bring fast-paced, energetic thrash from this island off England's southern coast.
Spanish thrash metal band from Berja in Almería province, formed in 2016. They deliver venomous thrash metal from the arid southeast of Spain.
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