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Sheboygan, Wisconsin's Toxic Ruin, formed in 2016, play thrash metal rooted in the genre's core principles — punishing riffs, furious tempos, and a blue-collar Midwest work ethic that keeps their sound raw and unpretentious.
West Mystic, Connecticut's Toxic Shock, active since 2011, bring a straightforward and energetic thrash metal approach to New England, favoring classic song structures and aggressive delivery over modern reinvention.
Tacoma's Toxic Shock, formed in 2011, deliver thrash metal with the gritty regional character of the Pacific Northwest underground, playing the genre straight and fast without deviation from its core tenets.
An Orlando-based thrash metal act operating since 2011, this Toxic Shock bring the genre's central pillars — heavy palm-muted riffing, relentless rhythm, and aggressive vocals — to Florida's underground metal scene.
Thrash metal band from Fortaleza, Ceará, formed in 2016 under the full name Toxic Trash Angels. The band includes vocalist Galo 'Blackfire' and guitarist Anderson 'Ripper' and released the demo Mundo Doente — featuring tracks "Marcas da Guerra" and "Reino da Corrupção" — before the album Freakshow appeared in July 2017.
Spokane's Toxic Vengeance, formed in 2022, fuse thrash metal's riff-first ferocity with death metal's heavier tonal palette, arriving at an Eastern Washington sound that draws from both genres without settling fully into either.
Toxic Violence was a thrash metal band from La Paz, Bolivia, active from 2015 until their split-up in 2017, having previously operated as Phantom Lord from 2013 to 2014. The band released the demo Violent Night in 2015 and appeared on the Illimani Metal Fest 2015 split release, placing themselves in the live circuit of the Bolivian metal scene. They operated as an independent act throughout their existence.
Out of the small coastal enclave of Baywood-Los Osos, California, Toxic Wizard collapse genre walls with reckless abandon, fusing sludge heaviness, grindcore violence, power metal theatrics, and experimental noise into a deliberately unclassifiable whole since 2016.
Ogden, Utah thrash act ToxicDose arrived in 2019 with a blunt, heads-down approach to the genre, plugging into the no-nonsense tradition of speed and aggression that defines underground American thrash.
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