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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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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German melodic death/thrash metal band from Schwerin, formed in 2015. They craft melodic death-thrash from the capital of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Danish death/thrash metal and metalcore band from Aarhus, formed in 2011. They fuse death-thrash aggression with metalcore dynamics from Denmark's second city.
Death/thrash outfit from Leicester, formed in 2015. Their sound channels the raw energy of 1980s thrash through death metal's heavier lens, pairing aggressive vocals with riff-centric compositions.
Blood Ocean is a thrash metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2014 and still active. The band plays in the aggressive tradition of Brazilian thrash metal and operates as an independent act within São Paulo's underground metal scene.
Danish death/groove/thrash metal band from Hvidbjerg in western Jutland, formed in 2016. They draw from three metal traditions for a versatile, aggressive sound.
Black/thrash metal act from Virserum, formed in 2014. Their compositions hurtle forward at breakneck tempos, driven by the marriage of thrash's precision riffing and black metal's hostile atmosphere.
Thrash metal outfit from Lombardy, formed in 2024. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
German thrash metal and crossover band from Darmstadt, formed in 2010. They merge thrash metal intensity with crossover punk energy for a fast, fun, aggressive sound.
Thrash metal outfit from Moscow, formed in 2009. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
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