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"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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The Polish city of Częstochowa serves as headquarters for this death metal and thrash metal operation, whose arsenal includes suffocating heaviness anchored by rumbling low-end. Each release doubles down on cavernous production and churning tremolo work.
Heavy/thrash metal act from Cologne, Germany, delivering powerful, riff-driven compositions since 2014. Their approach combines the best of traditional heavy metal and thrash from one of Germany's largest cities.
Firmly rooted in thrash metal, this British actfrom Cwmbrân delivers palm-muted barrages and speed-freak intensity without compromise. They've been at it since 2023, and their riffs arrive at terminal velocity with zero tolerance for filler.
Venice, California's Excel are a storied name in the American crossover thrash tradition, their roots going back before the current active period, and continuing as a working band since 2014. Drawing from the beach punk and skate-thrash culture of the Venice scene, their music bridges the ferocity of hardcore with the technical muscle of thrash in a way that defined West Coast crossover.
Progressive death/thrash metal act from Switzerland's Rhine Valley, combining the technicality of progressive metal with death and thrash aggression since 2007. Their genre-crossing approach blends cerebral complexity with visceral, high-speed energy.
Thrash metal act from Berlin, Germany, delivering high-energy aggression since 2016. Their paradoxically upbeat name contrasts with the punishing intensity of their thrash metal assault.
Exclusionist are a freshly formed death-thrash outfit from Salt Lake City, Utah, coming together in 2025 with a sound that fuses thrash metal's headlong momentum with death metal's darker tonal palette. The band is part of Utah's growing underground metal community, bringing a coiled, aggressive energy to one of the American West's more unlikely metal cities.
Crossover thrash and hardcore act from Switzerland, fusing punk attitude with thrash metal velocity since 2019. Their stripped-down, high-energy approach channels the raw power of both genres into a single aggressive assault.
Thrash/death metal outfit from Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, delivering aggressive, high-velocity metal since 2012. Their crossover of thrash and death metal brings raw Balkan energy to the extreme metal underground.
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