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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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Thunderous Death / Groove Metal from Amarillo.
German heavy/thrash metal band from Amberg in Bavaria, formed in 2014. They merge heavy metal power with thrash metal's cutting edge from the Upper Palatinate.
Blackning is a thrash metal band from Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in December 2013. The band has released three studio albums — Order of Chaos (2014), ALieNation (2016, nominated for best national heavy metal album at the Prêmio Dynamite de Música Independente), and Awakening Rage (2023) — and toured Europe in 2017, visiting Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Russia.
German thrash metal band from Berlin, active since 2002. With over two decades of experience, they are a mainstay of Berlin's thrash metal scene.
French black/thrash metal band from Grenoble, formed in 2015. They deliver owl-dark black/thrash from the Alpine city of southeastern France.
Swedish melodic thrash metal act active since 2020, tempering the genre's trademark aggression with harmonized guitar leads and dynamic songwriting. Their approach delivers thrash metal's visceral energy without sacrificing melodic accessibility.
Stockholm-based thrash metal act active since 2017, 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 Swedish filter.
Przemyśl-based thrash/stoner metal act active since 2013, fusing thrash metal's riff-driven aggression with stoner metal's fuzz-drenched groove. Their unconventional hybrid delivers both headbanging intensity and heavy, laid-back swagger.
Finnish punk/thrash/black metal band from Oulu, formed in 2016. They draw from three aggressive genres for a raw, chaotic sound from northern Finland.
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