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Proof (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
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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Thrash metal act from Lennestadt in Germany's Sauerland region, delivering relentless, riff-driven aggression since 2015. Their name captures the total elimination at the core of their thrash metal assault.
Cleveland death/thrash metal outfit Eradicyst grind out suffocating riffs with the blue-collar tenacity the city is known for, formed in 2019 and feeding off Ohio's thriving extreme underground.
Pushing the boundaries of thrash metal, this Swedish outfit from Höör/Ludvigsborg has been refining their craft since 2023. Their sound hinges on circle-pit anthems driven by relentless double-kick propulsion, delivered with ferocious dedication.
Fairfax, California death metal project active since 2009, operating with the DIY self-sufficiency of the Bay Area underground and a lo-fi rawness that suits the stripped-down brutality of the genre.
Thrash metal act from Bad Lauterberg in the Harz mountains of Germany, delivering high-speed aggression since 2015. Their name captures the act of obliteration that drives their relentless thrash metal sound.
Thrash metal band from Helsinki/Porvoo, Finland active since 2016. They deliver fast, aggressive thrash from the greater Helsinki area.
Black/thrash metal act from the Dinslaken/Essen area of Germany's Ruhr Valley, delivering venomous crossover extremity since 2010. Their approach merges the speed and venom of thrash with black metal's atmospheric darkness.
Heavy Thrash / Death Metal out of Texas.
Detroit speed/thrash metal band carrying the torch of Motor City aggression — tight, fast, and uncompromising, with the kind of mechanical precision you'd expect from a city built on industry.
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