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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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Herford's Pankration has been melding melodic death metal with thrash and groove elements since 2013, named after the ancient Greek combat sport. Their Westphalian base in the East Westphalia-Lippe region provides a launching pad for their technically assured, multi-genre assault.
Progressive thrash metal band from Novi Sad, Serbia, formed in 2024, combining progressive complexity with thrash metal aggression. They bring fresh, ambitious metal to the Vojvodina capital.
Power and thrash metal band from Slatina, Croatia, formed in 2003, named after the Pannonian cultural syndrome. They bring over two decades of energetic power-thrash to the Croatian metal scene.
Groove metal pioneers from Arlington. One of the biggest metal bands in history, led by Dimebag Darrell and Phil Anselmo.
Black and thrash metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2025, whose German name means 'tank battle.' They bring armored blackened thrash to the Gothenburg underground.
Black and thrash metal band from Italy, formed in 2024, bringing militaristic blackened thrash to the Italian underground. Their armored name signals the tank-like force of their assault.
Virginia Beach's Paper Trail have been thrashing since 2015, bringing old-school speed and precision to a city better known for Navy bases than metal scenes. Their sound is rooted in the Bay Area tradition but carries a coastal East Coast edge.
Groove, thrash metal, and hardcore band from Chernihiv, Ukraine, formed in 2012, delivering over a decade of crossover aggression from the historic northern Ukrainian city. They bring versatile metal to the Chernihiv scene.
Las Vegas's Papsmear play thrash metal with the grimy, frenetic energy you'd expect from a band bred in a city built on excess and noise. Since 2017, they've been one of the Nevada underground's most reliable sources of straight-ahead metallic violence.
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