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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
05/07 @ House of Blues Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Rock Island/Milan, Illinois thrash metal project. Quad Cities aggression from the Mississippi River border between Illinois and Iowa.
Fredericksburg, Virginia thrash metal project named after the nine worlds of Norse cosmology. Viking-themed thrash from Virginia's historic battlefield corridor.
Santa Cruz, California thrash metal project that performs in full orc costumes, bringing Tolkien's villains to life on stage. One of the most entertainingly committed concept bands in American metal.
Saint Paul, Minnesota speed/thrash metal project. The rallying-cry name promises urgency and militancy from the Twin Cities.
Mobile, Alabama thrash metal project. Gulf Coast aggression trapped and raging against confinement.
Clovis, New Mexico melodic death/thrash project. The name's simultaneous evocation of autumn and collapse channels the high plains wind into heavy music.
Buffalo, New York hardcore punk and thrash hybrid. The comparative name promises something beyond ordinary darkness from Western New York's hardscrabble scene.
A metalcore and thrash metal band from Dortmund formed in 2000, A Gift Called Anger brought together members of Frozen Illusion and Inhuman Conditions and spent years developing before recording their first demo Wounds in 2007. Their full-length The Rise, the Wounds, the Fear documents a band rooted in the NRW region's heavy underground tradition.
A Hanging is a hardcore punk and thrash metal band from New Orleans, Louisiana, active since 2015 with five releases. The band plays short, violent bursts of crossover aggression rooted in both punk fury and thrash precision. Named after the George Orwell essay, their music carries a grim, politically charged undercurrent fitting for a band born in post-Katrina New Orleans.
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