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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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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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Portland thrash metal act who released two albums in 2007. Their titles — Clashed by the AML and Why You Bad Soh? — carry a playful energy that counterbalances their aggressive sound, representing the Pacific Northwest's irreverent take on thrash metal.
Anger Outburst delivers melodic death metal from Kherson since 2022. From this southern Ukrainian city that has endured enormous hardship, they channel righteous fury through melodic precision.
Salt Lake City crossover thrash project from the Utah underground.
Atlanta crossover thrash and death metal outfit whose 2018 EP Terror Incognito delivers the kind of furious, politically charged extremity that thrives in the South's punk-metal intersection.
Angercure is a gothic metal band from Pleven, Bulgaria, citing influences ranging from Joy Division and The Cult to Paradise Lost and Type O Negative. Their debut "Through Soreful Harmony Demanded" (2014) and follow-up "Arguing in Dichromatic Days" (2015) — the latter mastered by Jens Bogren and recorded at Basement Studio in Pleven — showcase their approach of layering haunting guitar melodies and blues feel under harsh male vocals.
Angered Crowd merges groove and death metal from Kyiv since 2019. Their mob-fury name drives compositions of collective rage from the Ukrainian capital.
San Jose thrash metal project from the California underground.
Ferocious Thrash / Groove Metal from San Antonio.
Angeroots merges groove metal with metalcore from Parma since 2018. Their portmanteau of 'anger' and 'roots' speaks to the deep-seated fury that drives their rhythmically aggressive compositions from the Emilian food capital.
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