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Featured Album
Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Kyiv-based thrash metal act, active since 2021 delivering Bay Area velocity married to Teutonic heaviness. Rooted in one of Eastern Europe's most resilient metal scenes, circle-pit fuel delivered with workmanlike consistency.
Heavy/thrash metal band with punk and rock influences from Ankara, Turkey, active since 2016. Their name, meaning 'black cat' in Turkish, signals the feral energy of their crossover approach.
Progressive power/thrash metal band from Southend-on-Sea, England, active since 2008 and blending the technical ambition of progressive metal with power metal's melodic sweep and thrash's aggressive edge. Their sound navigates complex arrangements while maintaining the driving momentum of classic thrash.
Manchester, New Hampshire's Karma Dragon blend heavy metal swagger with thrash metal's kinetic aggression, a combination they've been refining since 2018 in the small but committed New England metal underground. Direct and hard-hitting without a wasted note.
Firmly rooted in thrash metal, this Ukrainian actfrom Sievierodonetsk delivers palm-muted barrages and speed-freak intensity without compromise. They've been at it since 2012, and their riffs arrive at terminal velocity with zero tolerance for filler.
Wielding death metal, groove metal, and melodic death metal as their weapon, this Italian outfit from Modena has been refining their craft since 2015. Their sound hinges on suffocating heaviness anchored by rumbling low-end, delivered with single-minded purpose.
Death/thrash metal band from Madrid, formed in 2016 and fusing death metal's guttural intensity with thrash's relentless speed. Their karmic revenge theme matches the retributive energy of their aggressive sound.
Thrash metal act from Nuremberg, active since 2013 and delivering high-speed riffing from Bavaria's second city. Their decade-plus commitment to the thrash cause reflects the enduring vitality of the German thrash tradition.
Formed in Dayton, Ohio in 2013, Karnage fuse power metal's soaring melodicism with the aggressive crunch of thrash, delivering anthemic riffs alongside plenty of speed and bite.
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