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Featured Album
Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Thrash/groove metal band from Liverpool, active since 2013. Their approach blends thrash velocity with groove metal's rhythmic drive from Merseyside.
Heavy Groove Metal from McAllen.
Royal Oak is a progressive/thrash metal band from Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, formed in 2017. The band merges progressive ambition with thrash aggression from the city at the Rhine-Moselle confluence.
Rubato is a heavy/thrash metal band from Krasnoyarsk, Russia, active since 2013. The Siberian outfit delivers hard-hitting metal that merges heavy metal power with thrash aggression.
Illinois act Ruby Rockatansky, formed in 2022 and named after a Mad Max character, combines the complex song structures of progressive metal with the raw momentum of thrash — a nervy, cinematic take on both genres that leans into tension and velocity in equal measure.
Furious Thrash Metal from Santa Cruz, California (early); Texas (later).
Louisville, Kentucky's Rude Awakening is a straightforward thrash metal outfit formed in 2021, bringing the genre's hallmark speed and aggression to a city not typically associated with the style. They operate in the raw, no-frills mode of classic US thrash without heavy stylistic embellishment.
New Orleans' Rude Awakening pulls from three of the heaviest currents in American metal — thrash, groove, and death — blending their distinct textures into a sound that is aggressive, swinging, and mean in the way the city seems to demand. Formed in 2021, they fit naturally into the NOLA heavy underground.
Thrash/groove metal band from the English Midlands, active since 2017. Their approach blends thrash velocity with groove metal's rhythmic punch.
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