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AntiFragile (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Manchester-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 British filter.
Finnish sludge/doom/death metal band from Kitee, formed in 2018. They merge three crushing genres into a bloody, oppressive wall of sound from eastern Finland.
Forged in 2026 from Zavodoukovsk, this black metal entity delivers uncompromising extremity built on icy tremolo riffs and relentless percussion. Their work carries the cold, misanthropic spirit that defines the genre's most devoted practitioners.
Oslo-based melodic death/thrash metal act active since 2019, combining the aggression of both genres with harmonized guitar leads and dynamic songwriting. Their sound bridges the gap between Gothenburg-style melody and thrash metal's riff-driven intensity.
Irish death metal act active since 2020, trafficking in the genre's essential currency of guttural vocals, down-tuned riffs, and relentless percussive punishment. Their compositions deliver uncompromising heaviness rooted in the old-school tradition.
German death metal band from Helmstedt, formed in 2012. They deliver crushing death metal from the Lower Saxon borderlands.
Finnish death metal band from Savonlinna, formed in 2015. They deliver assaulting death metal from the medieval castle town of the Saimaa lake district.
Matera-based black/viking metal act active since 2010, carving out their niche within the Italian heavy music underground. Their compositions reflect a commitment to their chosen sonic palette, delivered with conviction and underground credibility.
Portsmouth-based outfit that evolved from melodic death/thrash roots into a technical death metal powerhouse across three albums since 2007. Winners of the 2009 Metal to the Masses competition at Bloodstock, their recordings at 16th Cellar Studios in Rome earned praise from Terrorizer for their technical fury.
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