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Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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New York thrashers who launched in 2015 with a lean, stripped-down attack that keeps the genre's classic aggression front and center. Their name mirrors their style — sharp edges, no fat.
Stubbornly devoted to the riff, this death metal, metalcore, and thrash metal act from São João da Madeira traffics in guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Since 2015, they've built a catalog that reflects Portugal's intimate but fiercely devoted metal community.
Death/thrash metal band from Lille, France formed in 2014. They deliver electric, high-energy extreme metal from northern France.
Thrash metal band from Warendorf, Germany, delivering martial arts-inspired thrash aggression since 2018. Their kung-fu movie-referencing name sets the tone for a high-energy, action-packed approach to thrash metal.
Death/thrash metal band from Berlin, Germany, delivering relentless aggression with an urgency reflected in their name since 2017. Their crossover of death and thrash metal channels the raw energy of the German capital's underground scene.
Death/thrash metal act from Finland that emerged in 2025. They bring raw, punky extreme metal energy to the Finnish underground.
Los Angeles's Early Man has been a reliable deliverer of meat-and-potatoes heavy/speed/thrash metal since 2004, with a sound that wears its classic influences openly and plays them with genuine muscle.
Enid, Oklahoma's Earth A.D. has kept thrash metal alive in the middle of the country since 1998, representing a stubborn persistence that the plains states metal underground knows well.
Asheville's Earth Collider came together in 2019 to deliver tight, ripping speed and thrash metal from a mountain town that punches far above its weight in the underground. Expect fast riffs and no wasted space.
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