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"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
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Elgin speed and thrash metal band formed in 1990, operating in the fast-and-furious tradition of Midwest metal with razor-edged riffs and the breakneck energy of classic speed metal.
Carnage is a black/thrash metal band from Betim, Minas Gerais, Brazil, listed on Encyclopaedia Metallum as an active act under Headbanger's Behavior. The band's lyrical themes center on anti-religion, death, darkness, and hell, placing them firmly within Brazil's extreme underground metal tradition.
Death-thrash metal band from Lyon, France, active since 2011. They deliver aggressive death-thrash from France's second city.
Black-thrash metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2014. They fuse black metal darkness with thrash aggression from the Greek capital.
Groove and thrash metal band from Hanover, Germany, emerging in 2025. They deliver heavy grooves and thrash metal velocity from the Lower Saxon capital.
Carnal Forge formed in Sala, Sweden in 1997, founded as a side project by Jari Kuusisto and Stefan Westerberg from the band In Thy Dreams, and named after a track on Carcass's Heartwork. Their debut Who's Gonna Burn appeared in 1998, and the band went on to sign with Century Media Records, releasing Firedemon in 2000. Their sound fused Swedish melodic death metal structures with the blunt force of American thrash.
Brooklyn outfit pulling from doom, traditional heavy metal, and thrash to craft a sound that is equal parts crushing and driving, occupying a gritty crossroads between old-school weight and aggressive momentum.
Groove-heavy-thrash act from Stockholm, formed in 2020. Carnareum delivers versatile, riff-driven metal from the Swedish capital.
Carneross was a thrash metal band from Berazategui, Buenos Aires, whose lineup included vocalist and bassist Martín Echeniqué, drummer Alejandro Conde, and guitarists Alan González and Federico Conde. The band released two albums of aggressive Spanish-language thrash — Mass Violencia in 2012 and Religión es Muerte in 2016 — before splitting up.
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