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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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San Diego's Cryptic approach thrash metal from a progressive angle, building technically involved compositions that retain the genre's bite and momentum. Their material suggests a band as influenced by Watchtower as by Slayer.
Thrash metal band from Sarreguemines on the German border, France, active since 1992. With over three decades of history, Cryptic Art are veterans of the French thrash scene.
Razor-sharp Melodic Thrash Metal out of Texas.
Death-thrash metal band from Velbert, Germany, formed in 2017. They merge death metal brutality with thrash metal precision from the Bergisches Land region.
Black-doom-thrash metal band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2024. They blend the darkness of black metal with doom weight and thrash aggression from the Hanseatic port city.
One-man black/thrash project out of Kelseyville, California in the rural Lake County highlands, crafting raw and aggressive metal from a solitary perspective. The project remains independent and underground, releasing material across multiple metal platforms.
Bucharest experimental death/thrash metal project formed in 2022, pushing conventional extreme metal boundaries through unconventional compositional approaches. Their adventurous sonic vision refuses to be constrained by genre orthodoxy.
Progressive thrash/death metal quartet from Calumet City in the south suburbs of Chicago, drawing comparisons to Megadeth, Carcass, and Pantera. The band released their EP Inciting Insurrection while building a reputation in the Chicago-area heavy metal scene.
Crossover thrash act from Boston, Massachusetts running the hard-hitting collision of hardcore punk urgency and thrash metal aggression that defines the genre. The band operates within New England's underground extreme metal and punk crossover community.
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