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Featured Album
Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Spanish thrash/groove metal band from Quel and Arnedo in La Rioja, formed in 2018. They blend thrash and groove metal from the wine country of northern Spain.
Butequeiros is a crossover thrash band from Nova Odessa, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2018. The band blends thrash metal, hardcore, and punk into a noisy, aggressive sound aimed at protesting fanaticism and social conformity. Their 2018 debut album "Santa Esquizofrenia" showcases their raw, energetic approach to the genre.
Thrash metal outfit from Mikołów, formed in 2008. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Komotini-based thrash metal act active since 2020, 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 Greek filter.
Thrash metal outfit from Poznań, formed in 2016. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Danish melodic death/black/thrash metal band from Copenhagen, formed in 2010. They weave together three extreme metal styles with patient, methodical precision.
Death/black/thrash metal band from Tarbes in the French Pyrenees, formed in 2019. They deliver a volatile blend of extreme metal subgenres, merging the ferocity of black and death metal with thrash-driven momentum.
Bergen-based black/thrash metal act formed in 2004, delivering high-velocity aggression that melds Norwegian black metal's icy fury with thrash metal's riff-driven attack. Their energetic approach channels the spirit of 1980s thrash through a distinctly Scandinavian filter.
Thrash metal outfit from Groningen, formed in 2020. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
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