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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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A product of Scandinavia's melodic death metal epicenter, this Västerås-based black metal, speed metal, and thrash metal act channels pre-thrash intensity with a melodic edge. Active since 2011, their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Death/thrash upstarts from Rochelle Park, New Jersey, Entrenched hit the ground running in 2024 with a sound that splits the difference between old-school brutality and riff-driven thrash aggression.
Panama City, Florida's Entropy thrash with swampy Southern ferocity, mixing death metal's guttural heaviness into their relentless riff assault since 2020.
Baltimore's Entropy rip through speed metal and thrash with the aggression and urgency befitting Charm City's storied underground scene, formed in 2020.
Genre-pure thrashers, this incarnation of Entropy keeps the faith with heads-down riffing and breakneck tempos, flying the flag for old-school thrash metal without compromise.
Indianapolis thrash veterans Entruce have been grinding away in the Midwest underground since 2007, delivering straight-ahead speed and riff intensity deeply rooted in the classic Bay Area tradition.
Groove/thrash metal band from Athens, Greece active since 2011. They bring fierce, riff-driven metal from the Greek capital.
Viennese thrash/groove metal band whose 2017 album "IV: Suffer The Shadows" tackles the post-modern dilemma of fear across ten tracks of punishing metal. Engineered and produced by Stefan Dunst, the project blends philosophical depth with relentless aggression.
Enterprise, Alabama's Enucleation fuse melodic death metal's harmonic sharpness with thrash's momentum-driven riffing, bringing technically informed aggression to the Deep South underground since 2025.
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