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Everyone's Talking! (2025)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Blood Dynasty (24-bit HD audio) (2024)
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Salt Lake City black/thrash project that emerged in 2023 with a self-titled three-track debut. Fast, aggressive, and rooted in the first-wave spirit of Bathory and early Sodom.
Sacramento death/thrash project. The name referencing pleasure from pain suits the ritual extremity from California's capital.
Rochester, New York thrash metal project. Roswell mythology meets Western New York speed metal.
Denver progressive metal and thrash project. Surgical extraterrestrial imagery from the Mile High City.
San Antonio thrash-turned-groove metal band active since 2014. Their evolution from raw thrash to heavier groove metal mirrors the classic trajectory of many Texas metal acts, with four releases documenting the shift.
Portland, Oregon crossover thrash project blending hardcore punk with thrash metal. Pacific Northwest aggression at maximum velocity.
San Francisco thrash metal solo project. Bay Area speed metal tradition carried forward by a single artist.
Indianapolis thrash metal project. The name's theological finality channels divine destruction from the Circle City.
Asheville, North Carolina black/thrash/punk band ripping through the Blue Ridge Mountains since 2014. Four releases deep, they channel Venom and Midnight into a Southern-fried blackened speed attack with a punk rock backbone.
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