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AntiFragile (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania's Face First keeps it strictly thrash — formed in 2017, this project strips the genre down to its essentials: heavy riffs, driving rhythm, and no pretense.
Out of Mystic, Connecticut, this Face First blends thrash, groove metal, and metalcore into a hybrid sound that's been evolving since 2017, keeping a coastal New England edge to its aggression.
Face of Evil is a black/thrash metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2018. They fuse the raw aggression of first-wave black metal with thrash metal's velocity from the Swedish capital.
Face of Fatality is a death/thrash metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, active since 2007. The band has spent nearly two decades delivering death and thrash metal from Scotland's largest city.
Face of Fear is a thrash/death metal band from Latina, Italy, active since 2013 and fusing thrash metal's speed with death metal's heaviness. The project contributes to the extreme metal scene south of Rome.
Neenah, Wisconsin's Face the Horde have been combining death and thrash metal since 2019, channeling Midwest grit into tight, aggressive riffing that draws from both genres without splitting the difference.
Face the Unknown is a thrash metal band from Stockton-on-Tees, England, formed in 2010. The band delivers aggressive thrash metal from the northeastern English town.
Face the Wall is a death/thrash metal band from Brusno, Slovakia, formed in 2024. They bring aggressive death/thrash to the central Slovakian countryside, representing the newest generation of Slovak extreme metal.
Marshfield, Missouri's Face the Wheel deal in the classic intersection of heavy and thrash metal, putting meat on the bones of a sound that's been core to American metal since 2018.
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