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AntiFragile (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Thrash/groove metal band from Volos, Greece, active since 2011. Their approach blends thrash velocity with groove metal's punch from the Thessalian port city.
Metalcore/death metal band from Zeebrugge, Belgium, formed in 2005 as part of the H8000 hardcore scene. The band released their album In the Face of Suffering in June 2010, blending the physicality of Belgian hardcore with death metal heaviness.
Thrash metal band from Hoogstraten in the Belgian province of Antwerp, Rage Feeds Death maintain their music on Bandcamp under ragefeedsdeath.bandcamp.com. The band represent the grassroots end of the Belgian thrash underground, shaped by the classic Bay Area and Teutonic thrash templates.
Ragedate is a thrash metal band from Landskrona, Sweden, formed in 2013. The band delivers aggressive, pit-ready thrash metal from the southwestern Swedish coast.
Black/thrash metal band from Kraków, Poland, active since 2016. Their aggressive name accompanies violent blackened thrash from Poland's cultural capital.
Rager is a thrash metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2015. The band channels classic thrash metal energy from the Catalan capital's active metal scene.
Death/thrash metal act from the Alpine city of Aosta, active since 2008 and bringing aggressive riffing from Italy's smallest region. Their sustained output from the shadow of Mont Blanc speaks to the genre's reach into even Italy's most remote corners.
Thrash metal band from Żory in Poland's Upper Silesia, active since 2015. Their approach delivers intense thrash from the Silesian industrial region.
Raging Rob is a thrash metal project from Düsseldorf, Germany, active since 2008. The project delivers high-speed thrash metal from the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area, one of Europe's largest urban centers.
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