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Everyone's Talking! (2025)
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Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Blood Dynasty (24-bit HD audio) (2024)
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Allentown, Pennsylvania's Signs of Madness work the fertile overlap between power metal's anthemic drive and thrash metal's aggression, delivering high-energy performances steeped in classic American heavy metal since 2017.
Wareham, Massachusetts thrash metal outfit Signs of Reign deliver the genre's classic combination of speed, aggression, and driving riff work, keeping the old-school flame burning in New England since 2017.
Houston crossover thrash veterans Sik Mentality trace their origins back to 1987, making them one of the longer-running acts in the Texas extreme metal underground, delivering the genre's raw blend of hardcore intensity and thrash aggression across decades.
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Long Island's Silent Fury have been forging their brand of heavy/thrash metal since 2010, channeling the blunt force of classic thrash while keeping a melodic hook close enough to give the songs some staying power beyond sheer aggression.
A Columbus, Ohio thrash outfit formed in 2018, Silent Home operates squarely in the pit-ready end of the genre — tightly wound riffs and a Midwest directness that trades flashiness for forward motion.
Out of Liverpool, New York, Silent Killers have been cranking out old-school thrash since 2022 with a rehearsal-room rawness and a commitment to the genre's most aggressive underbelly — short songs, fast tempos, no filler.
Akron, Ohio's Silent Knight have spent two decades threading death, thrash, and speed metal into a cohesive whole since forming in 2005, blending the velocity of old-school speed with the darker tonality that comes from a genuine death metal foundation.
Milford, Connecticut's Silent Spring arrived in 2022 drawing from both groove and thrash metal, building songs with the rhythmic torque of groove-based riffing while keeping the sharpness and aggression of thrash underneath the churn.
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