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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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Operating out of Podgorica, this Montenegrin act forges Thrash Metal built on galloping rhythms and shredding leads that recall metal's golden age. Razor-edged guitar tone and barked vocals recall thrash's golden era.
Firmly rooted in thrash metal, this Portuguese actfrom Santarém delivers Bay Area velocity married to Teutonic heaviness without compromise. They've been at it since 2024, and circle-pit fuel delivered with workmanlike consistency.
Swiss thrash metal machine from Zurich delivering technical yet melodic old-school thrash described as "aggressive and refined, complex and catchy." Their releases Gods And Creators and LightCrusher showcase five experienced musicians blending groove, technicality, and varied vocal aggression.
Overland Park, Kansas outfit Klehma has been threading death, thrash, and progressive metal together since 2012. A technically ambitious band from the heart of the American Midwest, they favor complexity and dynamic range over straight-line aggression.
Laying down tracks since 2010, this Vercelli Thrash Metal outfit delivers crossover-tinged fury with punk's directness and metal's complexity. Their place within Italy's underrated but thriving metal community speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Žiar nad Hronom, Slovakia — death metal, progressive metal, and thrash metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2023, they deal in odd-time signatures woven into surprisingly accessible songwriting. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Thrash metal band from Kerava near Helsinki, active since 2010 and delivering over a decade of high-speed aggression. Their gold-rush name contrasts with the relentless, heavy nature of their thrash metal.
The Dutch city of Utrecht serves as headquarters for this death metal and thrash metal operation, whose arsenal includes suffocating heaviness anchored by rumbling low-end. Each release doubles down on cavernous production and churning tremolo work.
Heavy/thrash metal band from Poitiers, formed in 2023 with a deliberately vulgar Dutch name. Their aggressive approach delivers no-frills thrash-tinged heavy metal from western France.
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