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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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Stockholm's Stressfest pair thrash and speed metal from the Swedish capital since 2023. Their anxiety-celebration name channels the paradox of festive tension into compositions of freshly-minted, high-velocity aggression.
Painesville, Ohio death/thrash metal and hardcore crossover band formed in 2024, combining the extremity of death metal and thrash with the raw, confrontational energy of hardcore punk.
Poway, California thrash and death metal band formed in 2023, blending the speed and technical riffing of thrash with the heavier, more brutal textures of death metal.
Chicago, Illinois band formed in 2019 operating across death, thrash, and doom metal, drawing on all three traditions to create a multi-textured sound that shifts from blasting aggression to slow, crushing heaviness.
Strike Back deliver death and thrash metal from the German underground, combining extreme metal's brutality with aggressive velocity. Active since 2015, they bring retaliatory force to the German extreme scene.
Heavy metal band from Schertz, Texas, formed in 2012, carrying on the tradition of classic NWOBHM-influenced American heavy metal in the San Antonio area. Their sound is rooted in the twin-guitar, riff-centered approach of the genre's formative years.
Stringface play thrash metal from the Swabian town of Dischingen, channeling old-school aggression from the Bavarian-Baden-Wurttemberg border. Formed in 2023, they bring fresh thrash to the Ostalbkreis region.
Groove/thrash metal band from Fortaleza, Ceará. They appeared on the Vertigem Sessions split release alongside Fortaleza act Viollen, issued through Vertigem Discos on December 25, 2020, a live-format recording documenting both bands in performance.
Thrash metal band from Crystal Lake, Illinois, formed in 2017 and unrelated to the Ohio groove metal act sharing the same name, delivering aggressive Bay Area-influenced thrash in the Chicago-area underground.
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