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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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Instant Death is a thrash/death metal band from Kraków, Poland, active since 2017 and merging death metal's heaviness with thrash's relentless velocity. The project delivers aggressive crossover fury.
InstinctHate are a groove and thrash metal band from Imst in the Tyrolean Alps of Austria, channeling the Pantera-descended groove metal tradition through tight riffing and an aggressive posture. The band self-releases material through their Bandcamp page as an independent act in the Austrian underground.
Instructor are a heavy/thrash metal four-piece from Salzburg whose music addresses pain, isolation, and social anger through dark, German-language lyrics. The band describes itself as serious and substantive, releasing material independently through Backstage PRO and their own channels.
Progressive/experimental thrash metal band from Grado in Asturias, active since 2009. Their playfully umlauted name signals an eclectic approach to thrash metal from northern Spain.
Insulator is a thrash metal band from Riga, Latvia, active since 2018 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
Insulter is a thrash/black/death metal band from Friedrichsdorf, Germany, active since 2012, wielding a triple-headed attack that draws from thrash, black, and death metal simultaneously. The band delivers a savage, genre-blending assault from the Taunus foothills north of Frankfurt.
Insulter was a Brazilian death/thrash metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, formed in 2012, working in the same extreme underground tradition as early local acts like Sarcófago and Sextrash. Their demo recordings were compiled and released in 2015 by Nuclear War Now! Productions on the album "Blood Spits, Violences and Insults," which also appeared on Iron Bonehead Productions in a gatefold LP edition.
Black/thrash metal band from Sabadell near Barcelona, active since 2008 — over 15 years of blackened thrash from the Catalan industrial city.
Vicious Thrash Metal from Stephenville/Arlington.
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