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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 Trondheim, formed in 2025. Crime Zone brings fresh, aggressive thrash to central Norway.
Groove-thrash band from Vignola near Modena, formed in 2022. Crimes delivers rhythmically-driven aggression from the Emilia-Romagna underground.
Death-thrash act from Dublin, formed in 2023. Criminal Jammage brings raw, aggressive energy to the Irish capital's extreme metal community.
Thrash metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2020. They deliver fast, riff-driven thrash from the German capital.
Thrash metal act from Rome. Criminal Madhouse Conspiracy channels raw, unhinged thrash energy from the Italian capital.
Criminal Mosh is a thrash/crossover metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in the late 2000s. The independent act plays politically charged thrash and crossover, carrying on the aggressive street-level style that has long been part of São Paulo's underground metal scene.
Humble, Texas's Criminally Insane bring death/thrash aggression from the Houston suburbs with a sound built on blunt force riffing and furious tempo shifts. They are a product of the deep Texas underground that values intensity above all.
Erie, Pennsylvania's Criminally Insane deliver straight-ahead thrash metal in the blue-collar tradition of the rust-belt underground. Their music keeps it fast, simple, and aggressive without pretension.
Manassas, Virginia outfit blending the melodic grandeur of power metal with the aggression of thrash, delivering anthemic riffs and high-velocity rhythm attacks in equal measure.
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