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Featured Album
"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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Thrash metal band from Porto, Portugal, active since 2011. Their long-running project delivers thrash aggression from Portugal's northern capital.
Rezet is a thrash metal band from Schleswig in northern Germany, formed in 2024. The band delivers high-energy thrash from the historic Viking-era town near the Danish border.
Thrash metal/metalcore band from Harwich, England, active since 2010. Their long-running project blends thrash velocity with metalcore's rhythmic dynamics from the Essex coast.
Groove/thrash metal band from Constanța on the Romanian Black Sea coast, active since 2011. Their long-running project blends groove metal with thrash from the major port city.
Crossover thrash band from Santo André, São Paulo state, who released their self-titled debut album in January 2018. The nine-track record includes songs such as 'Red Witch', 'Hard Life', and 'God's Little Joke', and was tagged across thrash metal and hardcore subgenres.
Death/thrash metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2021. Their approach merges death metal with thrash velocity from the Russian capital.
Cavan thrash metal act formed in 2018, named after Shakespeare's infamous monarch and bringing aggressive riffing from Ireland's rural heartland. Their high-energy approach channels classic thrash from an unlikely setting.
Ricin is a thrash metal band from Oulu in northern Finland, formed in 2017. Named after the deadly biological toxin, the band delivers fast, aggressive thrash from the Bothnian coast.
Black/thrash metal and punk band from Haugesund, Norway, formed in 2024. Their militaristic name accompanies aggressive blackened thrash from the west Norwegian coast.
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