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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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Death-thrash metal band from Bochum, Germany, formed in 2020. They deliver a ferocious blend of death metal brutality and thrash metal speed from the central Ruhr Valley.
Ceremonial Slaughter is a thrash metal band from Austin, Texas, delivering aggressive, riff-driven attack rooted in the classic Bay Area and Teutonic traditions. Their sound emphasizes speed and ferocity with a raw, uncompromising edge.
Cereviscera is a Chicago, Illinois band fusing technical death metal with progressive and thrash influences, constructing intricate, shifting compositions that reward close listening. Their songwriting balances cerebral complexity with raw metallic force.
Cerna Krev is a Seattle, Washington act merging black and thrash metal into a savage, relentless sound influenced by Eastern European and South American underground traditions. The band's name means "black blood" in Czech, reflecting their rawness and intensity.
Certain Death is a thrash metal band from Newberg, Oregon, delivering straightforward, aggressive thrash informed by the classic American underground of the 1980s. Their no-frills approach centers on tight riffing and punishing tempos.
Death-thrash metal band from Meyzieu near Lyon, France, active since 2011. They deliver aggressive death-thrash from the Rhone Valley.
Cetragore is a Quincy, Massachusetts death/thrash metal band combining the speed and riff intensity of thrash with the brutality and aggression of death metal. Their tight, energetic playing reflects the strong New England underground metal tradition.
Chacina is a thrash metal and crossover band from Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil, originally founded in 1990 and reformed around 2004. The band released the "Gaza" EP in 2015 and appeared on Brazilian underground compilations including "Rock n' Roll Delo Tercero Mundo Vol. 1" (1995) and "Stars on the Rock" (2001).
Progressive thrash act from Fredrikstad, southeastern Norway, formed in 2020. Chain Home delivers technically ambitious thrash from the Østfold region.
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