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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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Graz-based industrial death/thrash metal band with a sound that weds aggressive thrash riffing to mechanical, industrialized textures. Active on the Styrian underground scene, they bring a harsh, mechanized edge that distinguishes them from their regional peers.
Reflexor is a thrash metal band from Giessen in Hesse, Germany, formed in 2012. The band delivers fast, aggressive thrash from the university city in central Hesse.
Refore is a thrash metal band originating from Slavičín in the Zlín Region of eastern Moravia, Czech Republic, formed in 2018. The band has since relocated to nearby Štítná nad Vláří-Popov while maintaining their commitment to aggressive thrash metal.
Christian thrash metal band from São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, formed in 2013 and split up by the mid-2010s. They released the EP Grito de Vida on December 20, 2013, and the track "Skate and Destroy" appeared on a benefit compilation in 2016.
Refugium is a melodic death/thrash metal band from the Delmenhorst/Ganderkesee area near Bremen in Lower Saxony, Germany, formed in 2024. The band fuses melodic death metal's sweeping hooks with thrash metal velocity from the northwest German flatlands.
Regent is a death/thrash metal band from Bad Freienwalde in Brandenburg, Germany, formed in 2025. The project channels aggressive death-thrash from the rural northeastern German countryside east of Berlin.
Thrash/death metal band from Caserta near Naples, Italy, active since 2014. Their Latin name, meaning 'kingdom of wrath,' accompanies aggressive extreme metal from the Campanian plains.
Regnum Irae is a thrash metal band from Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, formed in 2003. The band released their debut full-length "Reino de la ira" in 2014 on Caguamota and followed it with the EPs "¡Ah, qué pendejo sigues siendo!" (2017) and "Autodestrucción" (2023).
Progressive thrash metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, active since 2014. Their approach combines progressive complexity with thrash velocity from Russia's cultural capital.
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