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"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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Darksite is a thrash metal band from the UK, active since 2013. They deliver site-specific thrash metal aggression.
Darkstalker is a progressive/thrash metal band from the Norman port city of Le Havre, active since 2022 and hunting through complex time signatures and aggressive riffing. Their predatory name suits a sound that stalks the boundaries between progressive metal's complexity and thrash's raw power.
Orange County's Darksun arrived in 2023 swinging hard at the intersection of death and thrash, channeling California's long legacy of punishing speed metal into a sound that's all aggression and forward momentum.
Orange County black/thrash outfit Darkult have been fusing the violence of first-wave black metal with thrash metal's motorized aggression since 2015, keeping the cult underground tradition burning with raw ferocity.
Las Cruces, New Mexico's Darkwatch draw from thrash, doom, and classic heavy metal to build a sound as wide-open and unforgiving as the Chihuahuan Desert surrounding their home city.
Darkwave is an experimental, progressive, and thrash metal band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2020. The band push boundaries with their genre-crossing approach to progressive thrash.
Darkway was a death/thrash metal band from Presidente Prudente, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2004 and later split up. The band explored themes of religious hypocrisy, politics, and the macabre, and released the EP “Court of Iron” in January 2015 through the Digital Yourself label.
Das Cabinet is an instrumental progressive thrash metal and djent band from Munich, Germany, founded in 2011. Their extended compositions, including the 2020 release "Dragon Tales," showcase technical virtuosity across psychedelic and progressive metal landscapes without vocals.
Raleigh's Datura named themselves after the toxic nightshade and deliver on the promise — a poisonous hybrid of thrash, death, and doom metal that has been mutating through North Carolina's underground since 2019.
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