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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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London thrash metal band formed in 2012, featuring a five-piece lineup led by vocalist Andreas Morelli. Their free EPs including Close Encounters of the Thrash Kind and Shovel Butcher deliver energetic, no-cost thrash to the London underground.
Limerick-based thrash metal act active since 2024, delivering riff-driven aggression rooted in the genre's foundational principles of speed, precision, and relentless energy. Their material channels the spirit of 1980s thrash through a Irish filter.
Progressive death metal outfit from Rzeszów, formed in 2013. Their material navigates shifting tempos, unconventional song structures, and intricate instrumental interplay while maintaining the genre's essential aggression.
Portland, Oregon atmospheric black metal project active since 2010, contributing to the Pacific Northwest's prolific underground black metal scene.
Banks Arcade began in Auckland before establishing themselves as one of the more fluid heavy bands in the Australasian scene. Their own press frames them as a "heavy metal boyband," a useful clue to how the music works: metalcore intensity and alternative-metal riffing are pulled into electronic production, hip-hop cadence, pop hooks, and a high-gloss sense of performance. Future Lovers introduced a version of the band that was already resistant to a single lane, moving between aggressive breakdowns, synthetic bass pressure, moody melodic choruses, and club-aware rhythm. Later material pushed the contrast harder, with songs such as "More Want" and "Change" showing how easily they can treat a hook, a scream, and a programmed beat as equal parts of the same arrangement. Banks Arcade's history has also been shaped by international touring with modern heavy acts, which makes the big-stage ambition feel built into the writing. The band sits comfortably in metal-adjacent territory because the guitars and breakdowns hit hard, but the defining quality is the refusal to separate heaviness from pop spectacle.
German neoclassical and ambient black metal project from Heidelberg and Haßmersheim, formed in 2024. They incorporate neoclassical arrangements and ambient passages into a black metal framework for an ornate, cerebral take on the genre.
Florence-based melodic thrash metal act active since 2012, tempering the genre's trademark aggression with harmonized guitar leads and dynamic songwriting. Their approach delivers thrash metal's visceral energy without sacrificing melodic accessibility.
Two-piece melodic black metal project from England, formed in 2022, inspired first and foremost by Bathory. Their debut album Mighty Winds Shall Carry Their Names features six tracks of layered, atmospheric black metal with melodic death metal elements, driven by multi-instrumentalist Azathoth.
An Austin, Texas melodic death/black metal outfit formed in 2023, blending aggressive riffing with epic fantasy themes.
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