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"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)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Second Reality deliver thrash metal from the North Sea port of Wilhelmshaven, channeling old-school velocity from the Lower Saxon coast. Formed in 2021, they bring fresh thrash energy to a maritime region better known for naval history than metal.
Des Moines's Second Side have been navigating the space between thrash aggression, groove-metal momentum, and alternative metal experimentation since 2015. The Iowa trio's approach resists easy categorization — the thrash instincts keep things sharp and forward-moving, while the alternative influences introduce texture and dynamics that prevent the sound from calcifying into formula. They're a product of the Midwest DIY underground where versatility is a survival trait.
Hailing from Chelmsford, Massachusetts, this incarnation of Secrecy takes the thrash blueprint and runs it through a New England sensibility — tight riffing, aggressive tempos, and a no-frills attitude that nods to the genre's Bay Area and East Coast forebears. Active since 2014, they represent the kind of working-class thrash that keeps the underground honest.
Secret Fear deliver thrash metal from Flensburg, Germany's northernmost major city on the Danish border. Active since 2015, they channel old-school thrash aggression from a maritime outpost where Germany meets Scandinavia.
Secures play death/thrash metal from Zurich, combining the technical precision of thrash with death metal's heavier tonalities. Their dual-genre approach delivers both speed and crushing low-end impact.
Chicago thrash act Sedition formed in 2018 with a straightforward mission: write punishing, fast, and aggressive metal in the mold of the genre's classic period. Operating out of a city with a long history of heavy underground activity, they channel the crossover energy and riff-forward intensity that made thrash a movement rather than just a style.
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Graz-based extreme metal act blending black, death, and thrash metal since 2013, Seduced has released three albums including "Discarding The Mask" (2017), a 15-track opus of existential despair and anti-religious fury. Their sound ranges from blastbeat-driven brutality to atmospheric passages, all recorded and mixed at their own Graveyard Studio.
Charlotte, North Carolina's Seducer have been at it since 2004, blending the swagger of traditional heavy metal with the edge and velocity of thrash into a sound that's never fully one thing or the other. Their longevity in the Carolina underground reflects a band that's earned its following through consistent gigging and a songwriting approach grounded in the power of the riff.
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