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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Revigator is a death/thrash metal band from Sweden, formed in 2020. Their album 'Medieval' channels a nostalgic late-80s/early-90s thrash and proto-death metal feel with influences from Slayer, Kreator, and Death while forging its own identity.
Dublin act that evolved from thrash metal origins into alternative rock territory, reflecting a creative trajectory that moved toward more accessible sonic frameworks since 2017. Their stylistic transformation demonstrates the breadth of artistic ambition within Ireland's underground.
Revilment is a thrash metal and crossover band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2022. The band fuses thrash aggression with punk-infused crossover energy from the Madrid scene.
Heavy/thrash metal band from Białystok, Poland, active since 2013. Their approach combines heavy metal with thrash aggression from northeastern Poland.
Arnold, Maryland's Revolta are a study in metamorphosis — starting as a thrash metal outfit in 2008 before gradually calcifying into the slow, swamp-thick territory of sludge metal, a transformation that mirrors how many bands of the late 2000s hardcored scene came to discover the weight of amplifiers cranked past reasonable limits. The Chesapeake Bay region has never been a hotbed of extreme metal, making Revolta's persistence across genre evolution all the more notable. Their later sludge work carries the patient fury of a band that has nothing to prove except to themselves.
Queens, New York City's Revoltage bring the borough's hardscrabble street energy to thrash metal, forging riffs that carry the density of New York hardcore's influence but the technical aggression of classic thrash. New York has a long and proud tradition of metal that hits harder and faster than its geographic peers, and Revoltage inherit that tradition with no shortage of ferocity. Their music is city-forged and uncompromising — the kind of thrash that feels like it was written on a subway platform.
Progressive death/thrash metal band from Athens, Greece, active since 2009. Their politically charged name accompanies technically complex extreme metal across more than fifteen years.
Thrash/groove metal band from Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, active since 2012. Their approach blends thrash velocity with groove metal's rhythmic drive from the northern Portuguese town.
Death/thrash metal and metalcore band from Glasgow, Scotland, active since 2017. Their triple-genre approach combines death metal heaviness, thrash velocity, and metalcore breakdowns from Scotland's largest city.
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