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Oh No! (2025)
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diorama (2024)
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Medium Rarities (2018)
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Portland, Oregon thrash metal band formed in 2017, delivering straightforward Bay Area-influenced thrash from the Pacific Northwest underground.
Smithtown, New York thrash metal band formed in 2014, playing no-frills thrash on Long Island's underground circuit.
Seattle progressive thrash and death metal band pushing the genre's technical boundaries with dynamic shifts and complex arrangements since their formation in the mid-2010s.
Pittsburgh thrash metal band driven by apocalyptic and fear-soaked themes, active from 2001 on B-Headed Records and appearing on the 2003 Milwaukee Metal Fest Compilation via Nightfall Records.
Thrash metal band from Austin, Texas, formed around 2021 and active in the city's heavy underground.
A thrash metal band from Nanuet, New York that formed in 1987 under the full name Cymon Bar Sinister, operating independently before dissolving.
A New Jersey thrash/power metal band that existed for only a brief window in late 1986 through spring 1987, leaving no recorded releases behind.
Saint Paul's Bare Knuckle Brawl brings a street-level ferocity to thrash metal and crossover, a Twin Cities act drawing on the genre's punk-adjacent roots since forming in 2023.
A Los Angeles-based power/thrash metal recording project helmed by Chris Rydo, Barking Spider features rotating guest musicians across its releases and has maintained an active presence in the underground since the early 2000s.
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