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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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Budapest-based thrash metal act active since 2015, 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 Hungarian filter.
Barbed Wire were a death/thrash metal band from Brasília, the Brazilian capital, operating in the underground during the mid-2010s before splitting up. Brasília has a smaller but dedicated extreme metal community, and Barbed Wire delivered the raw, aggressive blend of death and thrash that the band's name implies, in the tradition of the brutal early Brazilian extreme metal scene.
Thrash metal outfit from Riga, formed in 2012. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Stargard-based death/thrash metal act active since 2017, 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.
Saint Paul's Bare Knuckle Brawl brings a street-level ferocity to thrash metal and crossover, a Twin Cities act drawing on the genre's punk-adjacent roots since forming in 2023.
Thrash metal outfit from Cerkno, formed in 2011. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
French groove/thrash metal band from Paris, formed in 2020. They deliver heavy groove-thrash from the French capital.
Athens-based heavy/thrash metal outfit active since 2021, combining traditional heavy metal's melodic sensibility with thrash's speed and aggression. Their sound occupies the hard-hitting middle ground between classic metal anthems and thrash metal fury.
A Los Angeles-based power/thrash metal recording project helmed by Chris Rydo, Barking Spider features rotating guest musicians across its releases and has maintained an active presence in the underground since the early 2000s.
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