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Featured Album
"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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Spanish thrash metal band from Lloret de Mar on the Costa Brava, formed in 2024. Their German-named hailstorm of thrash metal comes from the sunny Catalan tourist coast.
Danish thrash/groove metal band from Horsens, formed in 2018. They load up heavy thrash-groove ammunition from the east Jutland coast.
Stockholm-based crossover thrash act active since 2020, smashing together thrash metal's riff-driven velocity with punk's stripped-down aggression and DIY ethos. Their short, sharp compositions hit with the impact of a circle pit in a phone booth.
German death/thrash metal band from Aschersleben in Saxony-Anhalt, formed in 2017. They deliver explosive death-thrash from the eastern German lowlands.
Thrash metal outfit from Southern Sweden, formed in 2021. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Spanish thrash metal and hardcore band from Torelló in Catalonia, formed in 2018. They fuse thrash metal speed with hardcore's confrontational energy.
German thrash metal band from Dortmund, formed in 2020. They forge modern thrash metal from the Ruhr Valley's deep metal tradition.
Death/thrash outfit from Corby, formed in 2013. Their sound channels the raw energy of 1980s thrash through death metal's heavier lens, pairing aggressive vocals with riff-centric compositions.
Bonebeast is a death/thrash metal band from Presidente Dutra in the central region of the state of Maranhão, Brazil, formed in late 2014. The band began as a duo with Matheus Coelho on vocals and guitars and Ely Araújo on bass, releasing early demos between 2015 and 2016. They completed their lineup with drummer Gabriel Matos in 2018 and recorded their debut EP 'From the Ashes to the Chaos' at Headcrusher Studio in São Luís, releasing it in 2019.
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