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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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Crossover thrash band from Guerande in Brittany, France formed in 2022. They deliver fast, punk-infused thrash from the Atlantic coast.
Wielding death metal, progressive metal, and thrash metal as their weapon, this Dutch outfit from Terneuzen has been refining their craft since 2017. Their sound hinges on odd-time signatures woven into surprisingly accessible songwriting, delivered with total devotion.
Thrash/death/groove metal hybrid from Tabor, Czech Republic, blending three aggressive styles into a relentless sonic assault since 2018. Their name captures the unceasing, exhausting nature of their multi-genre metal approach.
Active in Voronezh since 2015, this Russian act forges Death Metal and Thrash Metal built on suffocating heaviness anchored by rumbling low-end. Each release doubles down on cavernous production and churning tremolo work.
Endless Fear is a one-man progressive/thrash metal project from Guaporé, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, created and performed entirely by multi-instrumentalist João Roberto Cavanus, who writes, records, and produces all material in his own studio. The project released its debut album "The Curse Inside Me" in September 2015, a nine-track record blending progressive and thrash metal sensibilities.
Minneapolis thrash/metalcore hybrid forged in 2015, drawing on the Twin Cities' hardcore lineage and the technical ambition of Midwestern thrash. They balance ferocious riffing with the structured dynamics that metalcore brings to the table.
A product of Italy's deep-rooted extreme metal underground, this Milan-based death metal, technical death metal, and thrash metal act channels percussive blast-beat onslaughts and cavernous production. Active since 2022, low-tuned guitars and guttural vocals form the bedrock of their attack.
Death/thrash metal band from Burgos, Spain that emerged in 2024. They bring fierce crossover aggression to the Castilian metal underground.
Thrash/death metal act from Balingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, delivering relentless, high-speed extremity since 2018. Their gaming-inspired name suggests a final, ultimate level of aggressive intensity.
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