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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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Thrash metal outfit from Omsk, formed in 2021. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Thrash metal outfit from Lodi, formed in 2019. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Bonecrusher is a thrash metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, formed in 2019. Operating out of a city long associated with Brazil's extreme metal tradition, the band plays aggressive thrash metal and is active within the Belo Horizonte underground scene.
Heavy Blackened Death Metal from Houston.
German band from Kiel, formed in 2013, whose sound evolved from thrash metal and crossover toward hardcore punk. Their stylistic shift reflects a sharpening of punk attitude over metal complexity.
Finnish black/thrash metal and punk band from Oulu, formed in 2015. They deliver savage, bone-hunting black/thrash with punk energy from northern Finland.
Danish thrash metal and punk band from Silkeborg, formed in 2020. They fuse thrash metal's speed with punk's raw aggression.
Finnish thrash/melodic death metal band from Porvoo, formed in 2025. They deliver cutting thrash-melodeath from the historic coastal town east of Helsinki.
French thrash metal band from Narbonne in Languedoc, formed in 2014. They deliver bone-scraping thrash metal from the Mediterranean coast of southern France.
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