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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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NeverDream is a progressive/thrash metal band from Rome, Italy, formed in 2025. They pursue ambitious compositional visions from the Eternal City.
Neverendinghate is a black/thrash metal band from Santander in Cantabria, active since 2008. The band channels inexhaustible aggression through nearly two decades of blackened thrash from Spain's northern coast.
Athenian heavy/thrash metal outfit formed in 2018, combining the melodic power of traditional heavy metal with thrash's aggressive edge. Their dual approach draws from both classic and extreme ends of the metal spectrum.
New Breed Hate Machine is an industrial thrash metal band from Manchester, UK, formed in 2016. Their sound fuses the mechanized aggression of industrial metal with the velocity of thrash.
Chicago's New Found Power launched in 2025 with a crossover thrash attack that draws equally from hardcore's urgency and thrash metal's technical aggression. The Windy City has a long, distinguished history in both genres, and this band sounds ready to add to it.
New World is a Viennese metal band formed in 2015, forging a powerful fusion of power, thrash, and groove metal. The project channels the aggressive versatility of each subgenre into a cohesive, hard-hitting sound.
News Corpse is a technical thrash metal band from Yorkshire, UK, active since 2015. The cleverly named band delivers technically proficient thrash metal from the north of England.
Next Round is a crossover thrash band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, active since 2014. They deliver pit-ready punk-thrash energy from Russia's second city.
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