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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
05/09 @ Mr Smalls Theatre, Millvale
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Detroit, Michigan heavy metal act with roots stretching back to 1983, representing the long continuity of traditional heavy metal in a city whose industrial backdrop has always given that music extra weight and conviction.
Chicago, Illinois power/thrash metal band formed in 1983, combining the technical ambition and melodic strength of power metal with the aggression and momentum of thrash — a pairing that reflected Chicago's fertile and diverse metal environment during the genre's formative decade.
Sioux City, Iowa death/thrash act formed in 2012, occupying the aggressive intersection between the two styles in a part of the Great Plains that produces metal with an unadorned, no-frills intensity born of working far outside the spotlight of major coastal scenes.
Westminster, California industrial thrash act formed in 2024, merging the mechanical, abrasive texture of industrial metal with thrash's forward momentum — a combination that leans into the cold, dystopian side of both genres.
Los Angeles, California thrash metal outfit formed in 2018, one of many bands keeping the flame lit in a city that played a significant role in thrash's development, delivering straight-ahead riff-driven metal under the Bandcamp handle 'jinxthreethirteen.'
Three Years of Winter from Nottingham forge blackened thrash metal channeling the Fimbulwinter of Norse apocalypse — three consecutive winters preceding Ragnarök — since 2018. Their mythological concept drives compositions of frozen, relentless aggression from the East Midlands.
Reading, Pennsylvania's Threnody have been grinding out death metal since 2012, drawing on the Mid-Atlantic's blue-collar extreme metal tradition to deliver punishing, no-frills heaviness.
Columbus, Ohio's Threnody work within the thrash metal tradition, delivering the kinetic riff-driven assault and aggressive energy that have defined the genre since its mid-eighties heyday.
Spokane, Washington's Threshold have been a fixture of the Pacific Northwest progressive metal scene since 1999, known for elaborate, melodically rich compositions that favor technical ambition and dynamic storytelling over brute force.
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