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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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Blasphemia was a black/thrash metal band from San Felipe, Valparaíso, Chile, with lyrical themes centered on apocalypse, anti-religion, and chaos. The band released two demos and one EP between approximately 2001 and 2005 before splitting up.
Black/thrash metal act from Veneto, formed in 2021. Their compositions hurtle forward at breakneck tempos, driven by the marriage of thrash's precision riffing and black metal's hostile atmosphere.
Since 2018, this Italian thrash metal act has delivered high-velocity riff assaults from Lamezia Terme (Catanzaro). Their sound channels the raw energy of the genre's golden era through tight musicianship.
Thrash metal outfit from Turin, formed in 2013. 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 Berlin, formed in 2016. They deliver heavy, groove-driven thrash metal with explosive energy.
Spanish thrash metal band from Tui in Galicia, active since 2009. They deliver fast, explosive thrash metal from the Portuguese-Spanish border town.
Spanish heavy/thrash metal band from Pola de Lena in Asturias, formed in 2012. They blast open heavy and thrash metal from the mountainous heart of northern Spain.
Finnish thrash metal band from Kotka, formed in 2012. They play dust-raising thrash metal from the southeastern Finnish coast.
Since 2016, this Norwegian thrash metal act has delivered high-velocity riff assaults from Kongsberg. Their sound channels the raw energy of the genre's golden era through tight musicianship.
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