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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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Los Angeles thrash metal band formed in 2016, carrying on the city's storied thrash tradition with high-octane riffing and an aggressive approach rooted in classic West Coast speed and intensity.
Punta Gorda, Florida band formed in 2010 that has evolved considerably over its career, beginning in progressive power metal before gravitating toward a harder groove and thrash metal sound with a consistently wide-ranging musical sensibility.
Chicago heavy/thrash metal band formed in 2012, blending traditional metal's melodic sensibility with thrash-driven aggression in the spirit of the Midwest's understated but productive underground metal scene.
Death/thrash metal band from Rome, New York, formed in 2018, fusing thrash metal's picking-hand aggression with death metal's low-end brutality and vocal extremity in the tradition of the genre's hybrid practitioners.
Black metal project from New Jersey, formed in 2013, operating in the raw and atmospheric end of the genre with a decidedly underground approach.
Thrash metal band from Tampa, Florida, formed in 2010, operating out of one of the most storied cities in extreme metal history with a sound built on fast riffs, aggressive rhythms, and the no-frills ethos of the genre.
Heavy/thrash metal band from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, formed in 2015, rooted in the hard rock and classic thrash tradition with a Midwestern directness to their approach.
Relentless Thrash / Groove Metal out of Texas.
Syphoned is a progressive death/thrash metal band from Detroit, Michigan, formed in 2022, merging the technical complexity of progressive metal with the driving aggression of thrash and death metal.
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