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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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Dawnmaster is a heavy/thrash metal band from Urnieta, Basque Country, Spain, active since 2009. They deliver powerful heavy/thrash metal from the green Basque countryside.
Dawnpatrol is a blackened thrash metal band from Libourne, France, active since 2012. They deliver fierce blackened thrash from the Bordeaux region.
Dawnraiser is a thrash metal band from Bradford, England, formed in 2020. They raise the dawn through aggressive thrash from West Yorkshire.
DawnRazor is a thrash/death metal band from Ipswich, England, active since 2013. They deliver razor-sharp thrash/death from East Anglia.
Scottsburg, Indiana's Day of Ruin prove that great thrash doesn't require a major city — just the right amount of frustration and enough speed to outrun small-town boredom. The project has been delivering honest, no-nonsense thrash since 2019.
Dauphin, Pennsylvania's Day of Wrath lay into groove metal's mid-tempo churn with focused, blunt-instrument intensity. Since 2019, they've built their sound around the kind of pummeling riff dynamics that demand a physical response from an audience.
DCLXVI is a black/thrash metal band from Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil, formed in 2022. The name is the Roman numeral representation of 666, reflecting the band's Satanic and ritualistic lyrical themes. They are an independent, unsigned act operating within Brazil's underground extreme metal scene.
Denver's DDC bring a relentless thrash attack forged in the Mile High City's tight-knit underground scene. Expect breakneck tempos, serrated riffing, and a no-frills aggression rooted in the classic Bay Area tradition.
De Souffre et Douleurs is a black/thrash metal band from Avignon, France, formed in 2020. Their name meaning 'of sulfur and sorrows,' they play extreme metal from Provence.
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