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Featured Album
"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 act from the Slovenian town of Škofja Loka, Moshead has been delivering aggressive compositions since 2015. The band channels the medieval town's energy into ripping thrash.
Mosherz is a thrash metal act from Wrocław, active since 2016. The band channels the mosh pit energy of their name into aggressive, pit-inducing thrash.
Worcester, Massachusetts crossover thrash act Moss Folk have been shredding the line between hardcore punk and thrash metal since 2008, delivering fast, no-frills attacks with the street-level energy of the New England underground.
Moth Haven is a thrash/death/groove metal band from Roosendaal, the Netherlands, formed in 2015. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Seattle's Mother Crone run a volatile mix of stoner grooves, doom weight, and thrash velocity, formed in 2015 in a city with deep underground metal roots — a band that treats heavy music as something that must also move fast.
Santa Clara, California's Mother Earth have been delivering no-frills heavy/thrash metal since 2016, maintaining a traditional approach to riff construction and song structure in the Bay Area, a region with a long and storied thrash lineage.
Bricktown, New Jersey's Mother Leeds take their name from the Jersey Devil legend and channel that regional mythology into heavy/thrash metal — active since 2016 in a state with a long tradition of no-nonsense metalheads.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania's Mother of Mercy have been fusing thrash metal aggression with metalcore structure since 2008 — a band that built its name on relentless live shows and a blunt, no-frills approach to extreme music.
Erie, Pennsylvania crossover thrash act Mother Ship have been riding the circle pit circuit since 2012, delivering fast, aggressively fun music that owes equal debts to early Suicidal Tendencies and the East Coast hardcore scene.
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