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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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Thrash metal band from the Bavarian village of Trogen, formed in 2018 and delivering high-speed aggression from the rural Franconian countryside. Their energetic approach channels the spirit of classic German thrash.
Straddling the line between progressive metal and thrash metal, this Italian actfrom Ancona fuses polyrhythmic complexity balanced with emotive melodic passages into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2025, and their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.
Groove/thrash metal band from Kiel on Germany's Baltic coast, active since 2015 and delivering crushing, rhythmically driven compositions. Their predatory name matches the heavy, circling menace of their riff-heavy sound.
Groove/thrash metal band from Nuremberg, active since 2014 and delivering beast-mode heaviness from the heart of Franconia. Their decade of output channels thick, powerful riffs with an aggressive, larger-than-life presence.
Black/thrash metal band from Thuringia in central Germany, formed in 2018 and channeling dark, violent energy through blackened thrash ferocity. Their name and sound evoke brutal medieval imagery.
Thrash/speed metal band from Friesland in the northern Netherlands, active since 2006 and delivering high-velocity, aggressive metal for nearly two decades. Their longevity speaks to a committed dedication to the thrash and speed metal traditions.
Stoner/thrash metal act from Rostock on Germany's Baltic coast, formed in 2022 and delivering an unlikely but effective fusion of laid-back stoner grooves and thrash velocity. Their tongue-in-cheek name belies a genuinely heavy sound.
When Kings Will Fall emerged in 2015 from Sarentino (Bolzano), they brought with them a sound rooted in death metal and thrash metal — all percussive blast-beat onslaughts and cavernous production. Low-tuned guitars and guttural vocals form the bedrock of their attack.
Heavy/thrash metal band from Guebwiller in Alsace, active since 2013 and delivering over a decade of aggressive compositions from eastern France. Their regicidal name channels the rebellious fury of their thrash-tinged heavy metal.
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