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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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Spectre of War is an Austin, Texas band formed in 2021, combining the ferocity of death metal and thrash with the raw, anarchic energy of crust punk into a relentless, war-torn sonic assault.
Speed Demon is a thrash/speed metal band from Monterey, California, formed in 2022, drawing on punk-infused speed metal in the mold of early Motörhead and Agent Steel, favoring raw velocity and stripped-down song structures.
Speed/thrash metal band from Itapeva, São Paulo, founded in 2005 by vocalist/guitarist Marcosoliverthrash alongside Rod Rosica and Wolf. After disbanding in 2009 and reforming in 2014, the trio of Marcosoliverthrash, drummer André Godinho, and bassist Alex Aquino released the six-track EP Prelude of Death in 2018.
SpeedBurner is a speed/thrash metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2019, playing fast, stripped-down metal informed by the early 1980s speed metal tradition and classic thrash aggression.
Speedkvlt are a blackened speed/thrash metal band from Valdivia, in the Los Ríos region of Chile, formed in 2017. The band's lyrical themes revolve around terror, occultism, horror films, and speed, and they released their debut demo Promo MMXVII in 2017.
Speedrage deliver speed and thrash metal from Esslingen near Stuttgart, channeling the genre's furious velocity from the Swabian heartland. Active since 2009, they've been raging at top speed through the Baden-Wurttemberg underground for over a decade.
SpeedStab is a thrash metal band from the Fox Valley area of Wisconsin, formed in 2016, delivering no-nonsense, riff-forward thrash with an emphasis on speed and aggression over technical complexity.
Speedy Claxton is a thrash metal band from Statesboro, Georgia, formed in 2010, playing energetic, riff-driven thrash that draws on the classic American thrash tradition while maintaining a distinctly regional character.
Speer is a thrash/heavy metal band from Casper, Wyoming, formed in 2014, one of very few metal acts emerging from Wyoming's isolated high plains, playing straightforward metal rooted in classic thrash and traditional heavy metal.
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