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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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Out of Philadelphia, Returner emerged in 2024 blending the surgical riff construction of progressive death metal with the adrenaline-soaked tempos of thrash. Their approach is relentless but not brainless — technical passages weave through aggressive breakdowns, giving the music a cerebral tension that sets them apart from more straightforward death-thrash acts. Still freshly formed, they represent the Philly underground's hunger for complexity without sacrificing ferocity.
Revanchist is a death/thrash metal and deathcore band from Nuremberg, Germany, formed in 2018. The band channels extreme aggression through a blend of death-thrash and deathcore from the Franconian metropolis.
Kenosha, Wisconsin's Revel in Rot have been fusing thrash's velocity with black metal's malevolence since 2020, crafting a crossover sound that's equal parts beer-drenched pit fuel and satanic swagger. The thrash/black collision they traffic in evokes the filth of early Venom and the tightly coiled energy of bay area speed demons, but with a nastiness that feels distinctly Midwestern — blunt and unpretentious. There's no pretension here, just riffs built to destroy.
Vicious Thrash Metal / Crossover from Dallas.
Furious Thrash Metal from Fort Worth.
Revenge Attack is a thrash metal band from Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia in Germany, formed in 2020. The band delivers aggressive thrash from the medieval city in the heart of central Germany.
Thrash/death metal band from Udine in northeastern Italy, formed in 2024. Their approach delivers aggressive extreme metal from the Friuli capital.
Thrash metal band from Rome, Italy, active since 2009. Their long-running project delivers classic thrash aggression from the Italian capital.
Thrash-tinged heavy metal from San Antonio.
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