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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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Thrash metal outfit from Vienna, Austria, formed in 2020. They deliver punishing riffs and relentless tempos drawn from the classic thrash metal playbook.
German black/thrash metal band from the Bavaria-Baden-Württemberg border region, formed in 2015. They deliver fast, evil black/thrash with a venomous edge.
Progressive thrash/power metal band from Reading, active since 2012. They blend the technical complexity of progressive metal with the energy of thrash and power metal.
BlackForce is a death/thrash metal band from Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The band is signed to Profane Records and addresses themes including politics, religion, and the environment in their music.
Blackgoat Holocaust was a black/thrash metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, active briefly before splitting up. The band was an independent underground act exploring themes of death, lust, and destruction in the tradition of the Brazilian extreme metal underground.
Finnish thrash metal band from Leppävirta in Savonia, formed in 2014. They deliver fast thrash metal from the forested eastern Finnish countryside.
Danish black/thrash metal band from Svendborg, active since 2002. With over two decades of blackened thrash, they are one of the Funen island's most seasoned extreme metal acts.
German metalcore and thrash metal band from the Goslar-Brunswick area, formed in 2017. They combine metalcore's breakdowns with thrash metal's speed and aggression.
Death/thrash metal band from Penmaenmawr in North Wales, active since 2005. Two decades of aggressive thrash and death metal from the Welsh coast.
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