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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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Chaos Cross is a crossover thrash band from Boston, Massachusetts that fuses the aggression of hardcore punk with the riff-driven intensity of thrash metal. The band is part of Boston's active underground metal and hardcore scene.
Death-thrash metal band from Dortmund, Germany, formed in 2014. They deliver a punishing blend of death metal brutality and thrash metal speed from the industrial Ruhr city.
Death-thrash metal band from Heraklion, Crete, formed in 2015. They deliver aggressive death-thrash from the largest city on the Greek island.
Chaos Horde was a thrash metal band from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, active in the mid-1980s alongside other early Louisiana metal acts like Exhorder and Graveyard Rodeo. Their sound combined the speed and aggression of hardcore with the technical riff work of heavy metal, leaving behind a demo recorded in 1986 that remains a cult item in the local underground.
Death-thrash band from Vercelli, Piedmont, active since 2004. Chaos Legion has been a consistent force in the Italian extreme metal underground for two decades.
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