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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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Heavy/thrash metal band from Dąbrowa Górnicza in Poland's Silesian conurbation, active since 2016. Their approach combines heavy metal with thrash aggression from the industrial heartland.
Nijmegen thrash metal outfit formed in 2010, delivering aggressive speed and precision from the Netherlands' oldest city. Their sustained commitment to thrash speaks to the genre's enduring appeal.
Rankatoko is a thrash metal and hardcore band from São Paulo formed in 2019, with a lineup of Marcelo Viera on vocals, Eduardo Xaxa on guitar, Alex Souza on bass, and Eduardo Jamaica on drums. Their debut release, the three-track EP Chacina e Posse, was recorded live at Greenhouse Studio in São Paulo and released on January 20, 2019.
Rankken is a thrash metal band from Sézanne in the Marne department of northeastern France, formed in 2018. The band delivers aggressive thrash from the Champagne region.
Rankkuri is a thrash/black metal and punk band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2011. The band fuses thrash and black metal with punk aggression from the Finnish capital's crossover underground.
Rankojat is a thrash/heavy metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2014. The band delivers aggressive thrash and heavy metal from Finland's most active metal city.
Rankor is a heavy/thrash metal band from Wiesbaden, the Hessian state capital in Germany, formed in 2023. The band delivers aggressive thrash with heavy metal foundations from the Rhine-Main metropolitan area.
Thrash metal/hardcore band from Leszno, Poland, active since 2015. Their approach blends thrash velocity with hardcore's confrontational energy.
Ranzer is a death/thrash metal and crust band from Kassel in central Germany, formed in 2023. The band merges the velocity of thrash and death metal with the gritty energy of crust punk from the northern Hessian underground.
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