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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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Monterey Bay, California's Ms. Fortune are a freshly minted 2024 thrash outfit bringing a coastal California edge to the genre, channeling the classic Bay Area tradition of aggressive, momentum-driven thrash with modern independent spirit.
Cleveland, Ohio's MSOD blur the lines between power, thrash, and traditional heavy metal, pulling from each genre's strengths to craft a hard-hitting, versatile attack that reflects the city's deeply rooted metallic blue-collar heritage since 2020.
San Francisco's Mudface have been one of the Bay Area's reliable heavy and thrash metal acts since 2011, delivering hard-hitting riffs with a working-class directness that nods to the region's legendary thrash heritage without being beholden to nostalgia.
Mudguard is a thrash metal, crossover, and hard rock act from Falun in Dalarna, active since 2016. The band delivers unpretentious, energetic metal with the utilitarian spirit their name suggests.
A thrash metal and crossover act from Rotenburg in Lower Saxony, Mudhead has been delivering aggressive compositions since 2018. The band channels high-energy crossover thrash from the north German countryside.
Mudhole is a thrash, death metal, and metalcore band from Waldsassen, Germany, formed in 2022. They combine multiple aggressive styles into a cohesive barrage of extreme metal violence.
Mudpusher is a death/thrash/groove metal band from Sundbyberg, Sweden, formed in 2008. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Formed in Seattle in 2023, Mudslide channels the Pacific Northwest's hard rock heritage into aggressive thrash metal, bridging the gap between driving riff-rock and the sharper attack of the genre's classic era.
Mudslider is a progressive thrash, heavy, and death metal band from Normandy, France, formed in 2025. They blend progressive ambition with the aggression of thrash, heavy, and death metal.
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