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Featured Album
Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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London-based Okami brings precision-guided thrash metal to the UK capital, combining technical riffing with aggressive tempos and tight rhythmic execution. Their polished yet ferocious sound sits at the intersection of classic thrash and modern metal production.
Czech thrash metal band from Karvina, delivering classic thrash since 2016. Their minimalist name matches the direct, no-frills character of their Silesian thrash.
German melodic thrash metal band from Cologne, blending harmonic hooks with thrash aggression since 2015. Their primitive name contrasts with the melodic sophistication of their Rhineland thrash.
Thrash metal band from Santiago, Chile, rooted in the Bay Area sound of the late 1980s. They released the Advance LP in January 2019 on Misfortune Records as a limited cassette edition of 100 copies.
Swiss melodic death/thrash/heavy metal band from Olten, formed in 2023 and blending three metal traditions. Their versatile approach spans melodic sophistication, thrash aggression, and heavy metal power.
Melodic thrash/death metal musician from Novosibirsk, Russia, active since 2019. The project delivers technically proficient melodic extreme metal from Siberia's largest city.
Bristol, Tennessee's Omega Tribe fuse groove metal's rhythmic punch with thrash's velocity, staking out a sound that's heavy without sacrificing momentum. Since 2017, they've represented the Appalachian end of the Southern metal underground with swagger and force.
Gothenburg thrash metal act active since 2018, a somewhat contrarian stylistic choice in a city globally synonymous with melodic death metal. Their thrash approach draws energy from that creative tension with their hometown's dominant genre.
Madrid blackened thrash metal act active since 2009, among the Spanish capital's more established extreme metal outfits. Over fifteen years they have honed a style that fuses black metal's venom with thrash's kinetic aggression.
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