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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 band from Lom, Bulgaria, active since 2013. They bring high-velocity thrash from the banks of the Danube in northwestern Bulgaria, representing the country's growing thrash scene.
Thrash metal band from Seinajoki, Finland, formed in 2022. They deliver aggressive thrash from the Ostrobothnian plains.
Furious Thrash / Heavy Metal out of Texas.
Portland black/thrash band fusing the raw ferocity of black metal with thrash's aggressive momentum, active since 2016.
Heavy thrash band from Soncino in Cremona province, Lombardy, formed in 2023. Casagrande brings aggressive, old-school energy to the Italian thrash revival.
Progressive sludge-stoner-thrash hybrid from Moscow, formed in 2019. Casamatta blends multiple extreme subgenres into a genre-defying whole.
Thrash metal band from Stein am Rhein, Switzerland, formed in 2020. They deliver straightforward, riff-heavy thrash metal fueled by speed and aggression.
Black-thrash-speed metal band from Germany, formed in 2023. They fuse the raw darkness of black metal with the breakneck velocity of speed and thrash.
Melodic death-thrash band from Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary, near the Austrian border, active since 2006. Casketgarden fuses sweeping melodic hooks with death metal aggression and thrash precision.
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