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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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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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Megalith is a death/thrash metal band from Mainz, Germany, formed in 2020. Their sound combines the brutality of death metal with thrash's aggressive precision, emerging from the Rhineland-Palatinate capital's underground.
Megalomania is a thrash/groove metal band from Skåne, Sweden, formed in 2016. They blend thrash metal's velocity with groove metal's rhythmic punch.
Megalomaniac is a thrash/speed metal act from the coastal town of Östhammar, active since 2011. The band delivers the grandiose aggression their name demands.
A thrash metal act from Helsinki, Megamutant has been delivering aggressive, mutation-themed compositions since 2018. The band channels radioactive imagery into rapid-fire Finnish thrash.
Originally active as Megatério from 1986 to 1990, the band reunited in 2006 when all original members crossed paths again at a Slayer concert in São Paulo. Their self-titled comeback album, released in 2008, was recorded at Papiris Studio using compositions written back in 1987, preserving the raw late-eighties thrash aggression that had defined the group's original run.
Megatherion is a thrash metal band with hardcore influences from Wiesbaden, Germany, active since 2017. Named after Aleister Crowley's self-proclaimed title meaning "The Great Beast," their sound fuses thrash metal's velocity with hardcore's confrontational intensity.
Megiddo is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Bremerhaven, Germany, formed in 2021. Named after the biblical site of Armageddon, their sound merges melodic death metal's harmonic sophistication with thrash's aggressive attack.
Megilloth is a death/thrash metal band from Nalchik, Russia, formed in 2024. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Mehbm is a thrash metal act from Lyon, formed in 2023 and bringing aggressive, speed-driven compositions to France's second city. The band joins Lyon's established underground metal scene with a sound rooted in classic thrash traditions.
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