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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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Splat is a thrash metal band from Olympia, Washington, formed in 2019, delivering straightforward aggressive thrash in the Pacific Northwest underground tradition.
Splatz is a thrash metal and punk band from Alton, Illinois, formed in 2021, playing raw crossover-influenced thrash on the border between metal and hardcore punk in the St. Louis area's underground.
Splicer blend thrash metal with hard rock from Munich, combining aggressive velocity with rock's melodic accessibility. Active since 2018, they bring a genre-splicing approach to the Bavarian capital's diverse metal scene.
's-Hertogenbosch's Splinterbomb pair groove and thrash metal from the Brabant capital since 2015. Their fragmentary-explosive name channels the shrapnel effect of detonation into compositions of splintering aggression.
Split Image is a heavy and thrash metal band from Campbell, California, formed in 2019, playing riff-driven traditional metal with a thrash edge rooted in the Bay Area's storied history with the genre.
Split Point is a groove, thrash, and heavy metal band from New Jersey, formed in 2017, blending the syncopated punch of groove metal with the intensity of thrash in a hard-hitting style rooted in the Garden State's metal underground.
Split the Abyss is a death and thrash metal band from Cincinnati, Ohio, formed in 2014, combining the aggression of old-school death metal with the kinetic energy of thrash in the tradition of the Midwest extreme underground.
Splitting Septum is a sludge, thrash, and hardcore band from Indiana, formed in 2025, blending the downtuned abrasion of sludge metal with thrash aggression and hardcore's confrontational energy.
Rome's Spoiled deliver thrash metal from the Italian capital since 2022. Their name carries connotations of rot and excess, channeled into compositions of aggressive, unchecked energy.
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