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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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 act from Catanzaro in Calabria, Moondogs has been delivering aggressive compositions since 2010. The band channels the raw energy of southern Italy into classic thrash.
San Francisco's Moosifer came together in 2024 playing heavy and thrash metal, bringing the Bay Area's storied thrash legacy into conversation with classic heavy metal directness and a healthy dose of self-aware attitude.
A Chicago death metal act founded in 2013, Moral Decay pursue the genre's classic brutal sensibility in a city with a deep underground metal tradition, prioritizing heaviness and aggression over technical flash.
Raleigh, North Carolina's Moral Decay occupy the heavy/thrash overlap, delivering the driving riff-forward attack and punishing tempos of the classic thrash era with a modern heavy metal edge since 2013.
Nashville's Moral Decay pull death metal, thrash, and punk into the same grimy room — a hard-charging collision that's been a staple of the city's underground since 2013, channeling aggression across genre lines.
Moral Sense is a thrash and groove metal band from Southampton, England, formed in 2011. They blend thrash metal's aggression with groove metal's rhythmic punch.
Provo, Utah's Moray have been active since 2008, navigating a hybrid space between post-black metal's atmospheric sweep and thrash metal's aggressive momentum — an unusual pairing that suits the drama of Utah's landscapes.
Morbid is a thrash metal band from Wolfsburg, Germany, active since 1989. As veterans of the German thrash scene, they deliver aggressive, no-frills thrash metal honed over more than three decades.
Morbid Atrophy is a death, black, and thrash metal band from Bristol, England, formed in 2011. They forge aggressive extreme metal spanning death, black, and thrash traditions.
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