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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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Lincoln Park, Michigan groove and thrash band fusing mid-tempo, headbang-ready groove riffs with thrash's caustic bite, rooted firmly in the blue-collar Michigan metal tradition.
Ashtabula, Ohio death-thrash outfit channeling the industrial edge of the Rust Belt into their music — brutal, fast, and direct, with little patience for polish or pretense.
Criogenia is a heavy/thrash metal band from Caseros, in the Buenos Aires province of Argentina, with roots stretching back to the early 2000s. They released the EP "Almas del mundo" featuring tracks including "Siempre presente" and "Salvaje", followed by the full-length "Even Worst" in 2009, building a body of work in the tradition of Argentine underground metal.
Thrash metal band from Prelouc, Czech Republic, active since 1996. With nearly three decades of activity, Crionic are seasoned veterans of the Czech thrash scene.
Death-thrash metal band from Hanover, Germany, formed in 2014. They deliver a fierce blend of death metal brutality and thrash metal velocity from Lower Saxony's capital.
Crossover thrash and power-thrash act from Budapest, active since 2009. Crippled Fox combines high-speed thrash riffing with punk energy and melodic power metal elements.
Death-thrash band from Biała Podlaska in eastern Poland, formed in 2023. Crippling Madness brings extreme metal to the Podlasie border region.
Death-thrash band from Vicenza, active since 2012. Crisalide — Italian for 'chrysalis' — delivers aggressive extreme metal from the Veneto region.
Edmonds, Washington heavy and progressive metal band blending the melodic ambition of progressive music with the muscular authority of traditional heavy metal in the Pacific Northwest.
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