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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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A product of a scene that fuses Anatolian mystique with Western extremity, this Ankara-based thrash metal act channels whiplash-inducing tempo shifts and gang vocal outbursts. Active since 2004, pure adrenaline translated into riff form.
Death, groove, and thrash metal band from Yvetot in Normandy, France, active since 2016. They deliver a versatile blend of extreme metal styles from the Seine-Maritime region.
A product of Ireland's Celtic-tinged metal scene, this Dublin-based death metal and thrash metal act channels punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Active since 2012, primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
Denver's Evulsion emerged in 2020 as a death-thrash hybrid, fusing the aggressive velocity of thrash metal with the deeper darkness and tonal weight of death metal. Rooted in the Mile High City's increasingly vibrant extreme metal community, their sound channels high-altitude intensity into riff-driven, forward-moving aggression.
A product of the birthplace of heavy metal itself, this Manchester-based death metal and thrash metal act channels punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Active since 2013, primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
Thrash metal band from Helsinki, Finland formed in 2016. They deliver fierce, riff-driven thrash from the Finnish capital.
Thrash metal act from Berlin, Germany, delivering high-speed aggression since 2019. Their scientific prefix name reflects a precise, methodical approach to the thrash metal craft.
Exagorth is a thrash metal band from Morón, in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area, whose lyrics address politics, corruption, and anti-religious themes. The band released the EP Siniestra Oscuridad in 2010, a four-track recording featuring tracks including "Perversos Impunes" and "Predicando La Mentira". They remain an independent act within the active Argentine thrash underground.
On the warpath since 2015, this Nizhny Novgorod Speed Metal and Thrash Metal outfit delivers relentless velocity and old-school metal purity. Their place within Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
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