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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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Chicago crossover thrash/hardcore band formed in 2022, fusing the breakneck tempos of thrash with hardcore's confrontational directness — their Spanish name, meaning "God willing," suggesting a pointed cultural identity within a genre historically dominated by Anglo voices.
Moscow's Siberian Meat Grinder have been delivering crossover thrash since 2011. Their violent-Siberian name and over a decade of capital-city energy have produced one of Russia's most recognizable crossover thrash acts.
Irkutsk's Siberian OldSchool Bros. thrash from the shores of Lake Baikal since 2020. Their self-consciously retro name and Baikal-adjacent origins channel old-school devotion from the world's deepest lake.
Nashville thrash/death/groove/Southern metal band formed in 2020, bearing the Virginia state motto — a phrase synonymous with defiant violence — as their banner while blending the riff-forward aggression of groove metal with the humidity and grit of Southern metal.
Sic Zone blast through death, thrash, and groove metal from Cologne, combining three aggressive genres into a versatile, hard-hitting sound. Active since 2013, they represent the Rhineland's capacity for multi-faceted extremity.
Staten Island progressive thrash/death metal act formed in 2023 that evolved toward deathcore, mapping a trajectory from technical complexity toward crushing modern heaviness — a New York City band navigating the intersection of precision and brutality.
Sicaridae deliver thrash metal from Murcia, named after the spider family to bring arachnid aggression to the southeastern Spanish thrash scene. Formed in 2020, they spin webs of velocity and violence.
Phoenix heavy/thrash act formed in 2018, delivering punishing riff-forward metal with the attitude of classic thrash filtered through a modern, muscular lens.
Thrash metal outfit hailing from Placerville, California, keeping the Bay Area tradition alive with driving riffs and aggressive, no-frills attack since 2011.
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