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Pittsburgh's Deminion have been forging groove and thrash metal since 1998 — one of the longer-running bands in Pennsylvania's underground, with the battle-tested tightness to show for it. Steel City's industrial legacy seems embedded in their sound: heavy, mechanical, relentless.
Thrash/death metal that relocated to Texas. Fast, mean, and old-school.
South Carolina's Demiser have been one of the more ferocious entries in the blackened thrash revival since forming in 2018, dealing in the raw, speed-obsessed hybrid that traces its lineage back to early Sodom and Bathory. Nasty, lo-fi, and proud of it — Demiser play as if the underground metal underground never got polished out of existence.
Demission Demise plays death/thrash metal from Perm in the Urals, active since 2020. Their doubled-death name — dismissal and destruction — channels the region's industrial heritage into aggressive, high-velocity extreme metal.
Atlanta's Demitri arrived in 2023 with a groove and thrash metal approach suited to a city that has always rewarded heavy riffs with a rhythmic backbone. Young and sharp, they channel the thrash/groove hybrid that defined much of the 1990s extreme metal landscape but give it a distinctly Southern swagger.
Out of Jackson, New Jersey since 2010, Demize trade in the high-octane fusion of speed and thrash metal that made the genre dangerous in the first place. Blistering tempos, razor-wire guitar work, and a reverence for the frenetic energy of early Bay Area thrash define their attack.
Santa Maria, California's Democide bridge melody and brutality with a melodic death metal approach that refuses to sand down the rough edges. Since 2016 they've been crafting riff-driven compositions where harmonized leads collide with aggressive rhythmic passages and growled vocals.
Democrazed is a melodic thrash/death metal and metalcore band from Bad Bodendorf, Germany, active since 2013. They blend melodic thrash and death metal with metalcore's modern dynamics.
A thrash/groove metal band from Innsbruck, Tyrol, formed in 2009, who released their debut full-length album 'Eet Thrash' on July 18, 2012. Unsigned and independent, they have been a fixture of the Innsbruck metal scene for over a decade and continue to take concert inquiries directly.
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