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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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Red Season is a Finnish groove/thrash metal band formed in 2015. The band merges groove metal weight with thrash velocity from the Finnish underground.
Italian band from Pescara that evolved from thrash/death metal with hardcore influences into industrial metal, active since 2017. Their stylistic shift reflects a move toward mechanical, electronic-infused heaviness.
Red Zone is a thrash metal band from Nantes in western France, formed in 2014. The band delivers high-speed thrash from the major city on the Loire estuary.
Two-piece melodic death/thrash unit split between Leeds and London, featuring The World Controller and Jon Stormbeard sharing guitar, bass, and vocal duties over drum machine rhythms. Their sound draws from Hypocrisy, Slayer, and Katatonia, blending harsh death metal growls with thrash-inflected riffing.
Thrash metal band from Kraków, Poland, formed in 2023. Their spider-themed name accompanies thrash aggression from Poland's cultural capital.
Redeemed in Pain is a thrash/death/groove metal band from Sömmerda in Thuringia, Germany, formed in 2015. The band blends three strains of aggressive metal from the central German state known for its medieval history.
Belfast thrash metal outfit contributing to Northern Ireland's small but fierce metal underground since 2012. Their aggressive riffing channels the intensity of classic thrash tradition from an often-overlooked corner of the UK metal map.
New Orleans has always been a city steeped in darkness, and Redemption have been channeling that into traditional heavy metal since 2016. They carry the weight of their city's gothic, storm-battered character in a sound that favors atmosphere and grit over flash.
Redemptor is a thrash/power metal band from Avilés in Asturias, northern Spain, active since 2011. The band channels the twin forces of thrash aggression and power metal melody from the Asturian industrial coast.
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