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"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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A thrash metal band out of Winchester, Virginia, active since 1993, delivering the genre's traditional mix of speed, precision riffing, and aggressive delivery from the heart of the Shenandoah Valley.
Formed in 2022 in Knoxville, Tennessee, Monolith of Carnage bring a death/thrash hybrid rooted in relentless riff attack and visceral intensity, carrying on the Southeast's tradition of no-frills extreme metal.
Monoptera is a blackened progressive thrash and death metal band from Bedfordshire, England, formed in 2024. They blend blackened aggression with progressive complexity across thrash and death metal.
Monos is a thrash metal and crossover act from the Catalan town of Roda de Ter, formed in 2025. The band brings the manic energy of crossover thrash to a small town setting, merging hardcore punk aggression with metal riffing.
A traditional heavy metal band from Kansas City, Missouri, Monster have been playing with energy and directness since 2010, keeping alive the no-frills heavy metal spirit in a Midwestern scene that tends to reward persistence.
Atlanta's Monster formed in 2010 and operate at the crossroads of heavy metal and thrash, delivering tight, aggressive material with the hard-edged directness that has long characterized Georgia's underground metal community.
Snoqualmie, Washington's Monster Blood are a hyperactive collision of crossover thrash, grindcore, power metal, and powerviolence — a chaotic, tongue-in-cheek band that refuses to settle into any single lane since forming in 2015.
Monster Mash channel the early German speed/thrash scene — citing Vectom, early Blind Guardian, and Iron Angel as touchstones — with high-energy performances anchored by the versatile vocalist Lion. The band surfaced with the demo He Gambled with Satan and Lost, a three-song statement that mixes traditional and extreme thrash with tight cohesion.
Monstera is a death and thrash metal band from Sillamäe, Estonia, formed in 2016. They forge aggressive extreme metal drawing from both death and thrash metal traditions.
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