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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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Named for the Slavic forest spirit, Phoenix's Leshen blend technical progressive structures with thrash's kinetic drive — music that stalks through the desert heat with ancient menace.
Two-plus decades deep in the Oxnard underground, Lesion grind out a raw hybrid of thrash and death metal that carries the working-class grit of Southern California's surf-and-steel coast.
Amherst's Lich King are thrash metal's most reliably fun-loving death merchants — since 2009 they've written riff-first, pit-ready thrash with a sense of humor sharp enough to cut through the mosh pit.
San Antonio's Life Cycles crash hardcore's urgency headlong into crossover thrash's pit-wrecking rhythms, keeping the Alamo City's extreme scene loud and unruly since 2015.
Fort Worth's Life of Scars have been tearing through death-thrash hybrids since 2018, their music carrying the hard-edged industrial grit of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex's working underground.
Portland's Lividus pull from melodic death, progressive, and thrash metal, building technically ambitious compositions that reward close listening with layered, shifting dynamics.
Intense Melodic Groove Metal / Metalcore from Fort Worth.
Razor-sharp Thrash / Groove Metal from Rio Grande Valley.
Blistering Melodic Thrash Metal / Metalcore from Houston.
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