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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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Kruševac-based thrash metal act active since 2025, 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 Serbian filter.
Blasthrash is a thrash metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, active since the early 2000s and signed to Dies Irae Records. Drawing heavily from 1980s thrash influences including Kreator, Exodus, and Nuclear Assault, the band released albums such as "Violence Just for Fun" and "Fake News", maintaining an old-school aggressive thrash sound across their career.
Thrash metal outfit from Como, formed in 2005. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Death/thrash outfit from Verona, formed in 2020. Their sound channels the raw energy of 1980s thrash through death metal's heavier lens, pairing aggressive vocals with riff-centric compositions.
French thrash/death metal band from Lille, formed in 2025. They bring blazing death-thrash to northern France.
Khabarovsk-based death/thrash metal act active since 2023, fusing death metal's guttural intensity with thrash's riff-driven velocity and rhythmic precision. Their high-energy approach delivers the heaviness of death metal married to thrash's urgent momentum.
Leiria-based black/thrash metal outfit active since 2025, fusing black metal's atmospheric venom with thrash's riff-driven velocity. Their high-energy sound channels the raw spirit of early Bathory, Sodom, and Destruction.
German death/thrash metal band from Leipzig, formed in 2023. They combine death and thrash metal's twin aggressions from one of eastern Germany's liveliest metal scenes.
Death/thrash metal band from Ans, Belgium, active since 2015. They combine death metal's heaviness with thrash metal's speed and precision in a potent crossover.
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