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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Founded in Bonn, Germany in 1992, Aardvarks are veterans of the German metal scene who unify thrash, death, and heavy metal influences into a cohesive, melodically sophisticated sound. Across releases like Pro Victoria, Conglomerate, and Farkas' Lemma, they have built a reputation for compositions that balance power and aggression with harmonic depth.
Aatxe is a black/thrash and crust punk band from Huntsville, Alabama. Across two full-lengths — 2018's "Cardinal" and 2020's "Piros" — the band delivers a filthy collision of black metal tremolo, thrash velocity, and d-beat fury.
Abandoned Souls is a thrash metal band from Saint Paul, Minnesota. The band plays aggressive, riff-driven thrash metal rooted in the Twin Cities underground.
Active since 2007 out of Berlin, Abasement combine death metal and thrash metal in a punishing hybrid that reflects the German capital's thriving extreme music scene. The band channel the aggressive energy of both genres into a forceful, no-nonsense sound.
Abatter is a heavy/thrash metal band from Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, formed in 2018 and currently on hold. The band plays a straightforward blend of old-school heavy metal and thrash, operating out of Florianópolis — a coastal city that has produced a modest underground metal scene largely overshadowed by larger Brazilian metal centers. Their Bandcamp page documents their recorded output before activity was suspended.
Abbey of the Ancient Ones channels thrash, heavy, and black metal from Cologne since 2024. Their monastic name conjures images of forbidden knowledge and dark ritual from the cathedral city on the Rhine.
Abductum is a thrash metal band from Maracena near Granada, Spain, formed in late 2010, whose two albums The Unrevealed Truth and Behold the Man, released through Art Gates Productions, deliver pure thrash aggression in the 1980s tradition. The band's artwork is created by guitarist Noel Puente, and their sound has been praised for embodying the true thrash spirit with increasing aggression across each release.
Abel channels industrial and thrash metal from Amadora in the Lisbon metropolitan area since 2008. Named after the first murder victim in biblical tradition, they process that primal violence through the grinding mechanisms of industrial thrash.
Aberrated is a progressive thrash and death metal band from Long Island, New York. Though their released output consists of two singles, the band's technical approach to thrash and death metal marks them as part of Long Island's vibrant extreme metal scene.
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