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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Montgomery, Alabama progressive thrash outfit that has been pushing against genre boundaries since 2011, threading complex song structures and odd time signatures through aggressive thrash foundations. Long-running for the Alabama underground, they bring a technical edge that sets them apart from the region's more straightforward metal acts.
Våld is a thrash metal/crust/crossover band from Karjaa, Finland, formed in 2025. They fuse thrash metal's speed with crust punk's raw aggression and crossover energy.
Melodic black/thrash metal act from Sofia, Bulgaria formed in 2017. W.A.R fuses the tremolo-picked intensity of black metal with the speed and precision of thrash, adding melodic elements to their aggressive foundation.
Thrash and death metal band from Lille, France active since 2011. W.I.L.D. merges thrash velocity with death metal heaviness from the industrial north of France.
Thrash/death metal band from Lisbon, Portugal active since 2011. Wall of Vipers delivers over a decade of aggressive thrash and death metal from the Portuguese capital.
Thrash metal band from Kiel, Germany formed in 2021. Wallcrawler brings fast, aggressive thrash to the northern German port city with an energetic, no-frills approach to the genre.
Walrider is a thrash/crossover band from Formosa, Goiás, Brazil, active since 2015. The band is part of Brazil's interior underground scene and has released the album Death, Beer and Mosh, a title that announces their no-frills approach to pit-ready crossover thrash.
Thrash metal band from Daisbach/Sinsheim, Germany active since 2013. War Agenda delivers aggressive, no-compromise thrash metal fueled by the genre's classic emphasis on speed, precision, and political fury.
Black, thrash, and speed metal band from Split, Croatia active since 2014. War Atrocities unleashes a triple assault of extreme speed and darkness from the Dalmatian coast.
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