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Divine (2024)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Atlanta's Faith in Chaos formed in 2013 and lives up to their name, pushing thrash metal toward genuinely experimental territory — finding the points where tightly coiled aggression can break open into something stranger and harder to categorize.
Richland's Faith or Fear has been in the thrash metal business since 2009, dealing in the genre's essential vocabulary of fast picking, barked vocals, and the kind of propulsive energy that made thrash indispensable thirty years ago.
Mean Groove Metal from Dallas.
Faithreat is a thrash metal and crossover band from Volos, Greece, active since 2009 and fusing thrash metal aggression with crossover punk energy. The band represents the Thessalian thrash metal contingent.
Falanga is a death/thrash metal band from the Pushkino/Mytishchi area north of Moscow, formed in 2020. They deliver aggressive death/thrash from the suburban ring of the Russian capital.
Falange is a thrash metal band from the ABC region of São Paulo, formed in the early 2010s, drawing from the old-school thrash tradition of the region. The lineup of Luciano Piagentini (vocals), Ivan Miotto (guitar), Marcelo Coletti (bass), and Caio Imperato (drums) released their self-titled EP in 2016, a six-track slab recorded at Bay Area Estudios and distributed internationally through ElCheapo Recordz (Canada) and Bunch Greenade Records (Italy). The band has shared stages with Brazilian punk and hardcore legends Cólera and Grinders, cementing their place in the São Paulo underground.
Tulsa, Oklahoma's Falck formed in 2021 at the meeting point of thrash, groove, and traditional heavy metal — a combination that produces the kind of no-nonsense, hard-hitting music that the southern plains seem to generate with ease.
Sioux Falls, South Dakota's Fall has been playing death and thrash metal since 2011, representing an isolated but tenacious outpost of extremity in a region where metal scenes survive on sheer stubbornness and shared conviction.
Fall Damage is a thrash/groove metal band from Finland, formed in 2020. The band combines thrash metal speed with groove metal's rhythmic punch.
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