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Featured Album
Butterflies (2025)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Sonic Brew 20th Anniversary Blend 5.99 - 5.19 (2019)
05/29 @ O2 Forum Kentish Town, London
Featured Groove Metal Album
Evidence (2023)
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Albuquerque's Electrocuted have been welding death and thrash metal together since 2018 in a city not known for extreme music, making their existence a small but defiant entry in the New Mexico underground.
New York's Elefantkiller blend crossover thrash with straight-up thrash metal into something loud, chaotic, and absurdly fun — the band's name says everything about their commitment to over-the-top heaviness since 2013.
Salinas, California's Elektrix have been churning out meat-and-potatoes thrash metal since 2015, the agricultural heartland of the Central Valley providing an unlikely but appropriate backdrop for no-frills aggression.
New Orleans crossover thrash act Elimination have been knocking heads since 2009, bringing the Crescent City's deep-seated aggression to a genre that thrives on speed, chaos, and hardcore-punk intensity.
Seattle's Elks Blood have been grinding out death/thrash since 2010 with the Pacific Northwest's characteristic intensity — unrelenting riff patterns, furious tempos, and a sound that owes equal debts to both parent genres.
Phoenix's Ellefson — fronted by former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson — channels old-school thrash and speed metal energy with the authority of someone who helped define the genre in the first place.
Dallas's Eloi blend groove metal's hip-swinging heaviness with thrash's aggression, a combination that fits the Texas tradition of metal that wants to move the room as much as destroy it.
Orlando thrash metal project from the Florida underground.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania's Elysion Fields have been working the thrash/groove intersection since 2011 — riffs with real momentum behind them, pushed forward by groove metal's locomotive sense of rhythm.
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