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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
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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FlameDrop is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Mosonmagyarovar, Hungary, near the Austrian border, active since 2023. The project combines melodic death metal's hooks with thrash metal's aggression.
Flames is a Greek metal band from Athens with roots stretching back to 1994, evolving from speed metal origins into thrash and death metal territory. The band represents one of the longer-running acts in the Athenian extreme metal scene.
Flaming Senses is a thrash metal band from Lauterbach, Germany, formed in 2015. The band delivers fast, aggressive thrash metal from the Hessian Vogelsberg region.
Flash of Aggression is a thrash metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2013. Their name-as-mission-statement captures the explosive, high-velocity character of their thrash from the Russian capital.
Flashover is a thrash metal band from Brasília, Brazil, formed in the mid-1990s with influences drawn from Kreator, Slayer, and Sepultura. The band released their debut album "Infamous Country" in 2001, followed by "Land of Cannibals" in 2003 on Lethal Records and "Superior" in 2008, establishing themselves as a consistent presence in the Brazilian thrash underground. Their current lineup includes guitarists Fernando Cezar and Itazil Junior alongside drummer Josefer Ayres, who also performs with Phrenesy.
Flayed Disciple is a death/thrash metal band from Taunton, England, active since 2008. The band has spent nearly two decades delivering extreme death and thrash metal from the Somerset town.
Flegma is a thrash metal/crossover band from Malmo, Sweden, formed in 2017. They deliver high-speed crossover thrash from Sweden's southernmost major city on the Oresund strait.
Fleischmann is an alternative/thrash metal band from Berlin, Germany, active since 1999. With over two decades of activity, the band has carved out a distinctive niche between alternative and thrash metal.
Fleischwolf is a thrash metal/hardcore/punk band from Mettmann, Germany, formed in 2019. The band — whose name means "meat grinder" — delivers a ferocious blend of thrash, hardcore, and punk.
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