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Featured Album
"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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A product of Poland's titan-grade death metal scene, this Ruda Śląska-based heavy metal and thrash metal act channels mosh-pit-inducing aggression with tightly wound precision. Active since 2015, the tempo rarely drops below neck-breaking speed.
Groove/thrash metal band from Oulu, active since 2012 and delivering heavy, rhythmically driven compositions from northern Finland. Their atmosphere-killing name captures the suffocating intensity of their groove-thrash approach.
Thrash/power metal band from Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps, active since 2013 and delivering high-energy metal from one of Germany's most scenic mountain towns. Their sound fuses thrash's aggression with power metal's anthemic grandeur.
Active in Kropyvnytskyi since 2017, this Ukrainian act forges Death Metal, Groove Metal, and Thrash Metal built on suffocating heaviness anchored by rumbling low-end. Each release doubles down on cavernous production and churning tremolo work.
Groove/thrash metal band from Perth, Scotland, formed in 2025 and blending the rhythmic crunch of groove metal with thrash's speed and intensity. Their sound carries the aggressive energy of both genres in a tightly wound package.
When Killset emerged in 2018 from Kraków, they brought with them a sound rooted in gothic metal, groove metal, and thrash metal — all beauty-and-the-beast vocal contrasts over darkly atmospheric arrangements. The combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
Part of the Gothenburg school's homeland, this act channels death metal, grindcore, and thrash metal with a focus on microsecond-length blasts of noise and fury. Formed in 2010, based in Sala, every recording pushes a little further into uncharted sonic territory.
Thrash metal band from Newcastle upon Tyne, active since 2018 and named after the astronomical phenomenon of colliding neutron stars. Their sound channels thrash metal's relentless velocity and riff-driven attack.
Razor-sharp Hard Rock / Thrash Metal out of Texas.
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