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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Miscarriage is a death and thrash metal band from Hanover, Germany, formed in 2017. They deliver crushing extreme metal with manic, depraved energy that pushes into grindcore and powerviolence territory.
A technical death/thrash metal act from Venice, Miscreance has been delivering precision-driven extremity since 2016. The band channels the unlikely brutality of their lagoon city setting into complex, aggressive compositions.
Miscreantics is a death/thrash/groove metal band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2021. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Miscreants is a thrash metal and metalcore act from Groningen in the northern Netherlands, active since 2017. The band delivers aggressive, rule-breaking compositions from the country's northernmost major city.
Formed in 2022 in Chicago, Misfire deliver energetic, hard-hitting thrash metal that taps into the genre's classic crossover roots, carving out a spot in the city's active heavy metal underground with straightforward riff intensity and driving tempos.
Toronto-based Misothronos weave together melodic death metal's harmonic sophistication, black metal's atmospheric hostility, and thrash metal's kinetic energy into a dynamic, multi-layered extreme metal sound that defies clean genre categorization since forming in 2018.
A heavy/thrash metal act from the Île-de-France region, Missing in Action formed in 2025. The band delivers aggressive, combat-themed metal from the Parisian periphery.
DeSoto County, Mississippi's Mississippi Burning forge a regionally charged sound that locks the Southern metal tradition's bluesy swagger into the ferocity of death and thrash metal, producing a distinctly American extreme metal voice since their 2022 formation.
A thrash metal act from the naval city of Karlskrona, Mister Green formed in 2026. The band represents the newest generation of Swedish thrash from the Blekinge coast.
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