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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)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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New Jersey band formed in 2011 that began in death and thrash metal before transitioning toward deathcore, documented by Metal-Archives as progressing from death/thrash roots to a heavier breakdown-driven sound. They have built a following in the Northeast underground over their decade-plus of activity.
Death and thrash metal band from Asbury Park, New Jersey, formed in 2010, combining the technical aggression of death metal with the speed and attitude of thrash in the tradition of East Coast extreme metal.
Blackened death and thrash metal band from Pullman, Washington, formed in 2010, fusing the darkness of black metal with the technical brutality of death metal and the kinetic energy of thrash in the Eastern Washington underground.
Baltimore, Maryland band formed in 2010, working across heavy, power, and thrash metal styles with a broad approach that spans the melodic grandeur of power metal and the aggressive drive of thrash.
Thrash metal band from Union City, New Jersey, formed in 1992, representing one of the longer-established acts in the Northeast thrash scene with over three decades of activity rooted in aggressive, classically-influenced thrash metal.
Saffle's Stykjarn merge metalcore, death, and thrash metal from the small Varmland town since 2009. Their Swedish name meaning "flat iron" channels the pressing weight of heated metal into over a decade of multi-genre compositions.
Stuck blend progressive thrash metal with crossover and hardcore from Lower Saxony, creating a volatile hybrid that refuses to be confined to a single style. Active since 2018, they bring genre-bending aggression to the North German underground.
Thrash metal band from Columbus, Georgia, formed in 2021, delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash in the southern underground. The band operates under the Stump Grinder Records label, suggesting both self-sufficient DIY ethos and organizational ambition.
Orebro's Stygg Dod thrash from the central Swedish city since 2019. Their Swedish name meaning "ugly death" channels the aesthetic revulsion of mortality into compositions of aggressive, Narke-bred intensity.
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