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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Indianapolis's Death Ensemble weld blackened riffing to thrash metal's kinetic momentum, earning their stripes in Indiana's underground since 2012. Their blackened thrash attack trades melody for iron-fisted aggression and cold, nihilistic atmosphere.
Death Feast plays black/death/thrash metal from Lisbon, active since 2018 and setting a banquet table of extreme metal drawn from three of the genre's most aggressive branches. Their gluttonous name suits a sound that devours everything in its path.
Los Angeles thrash outfit Death Force have been tearing through the sprawling SoCal metal scene since 2018, channeling the aggression of Bay Area forebears into a modern context. Fast picking, barked vocals, and unapologetically retro riff construction define their sound.
Death Front is a thrash metal project from Syracuse, Sicily, formed in 2020. The project delivers aggressive and dark thrash metal with nihilistic themes from the Sicilian underground.
Death Fury is a death and thrash metal band from Ostend, Belgium, formed in 2022 and currently active as an independent act. The coastal city's relatively sparse metal scene provides the backdrop for a project intent on delivering uncompromising extreme metal in the classic European tradition.
Death Head is a progressive thrash metal band from Portsmouth, England, formed in 2018. They push thrash into progressive territory from the Hampshire coast.
New York's Death Immortal occupy the aggressive territory where thrash metal and metalcore overlap, delivering high-energy performances and technically informed riff work since 2014. The band takes classic thrash vocabulary and injects it with the hard-hitting urgency of modern hardcore-influenced metal.
Tulsa, Oklahoma's Death Inquisition have been prosecuting their case for no-compromise thrash since 2012, channeling the intensity of the genre's classic era from the middle of America's heartland. Their thrash is blunt and fast, guided more by riff aggression than technical showmanship.
Santa Ana, California's Death Inquisition arrived in 2012 with a thrash metal attack that reflects Southern California's history of tight-knit underground scenes and high-energy live performance. Their version of the genre pulls from the Bay Area template and filters it through a distinctly SoCal lens.
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