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Comes the Green Man, Flees the Winter Witch (2025)
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Switchback is a sludge and stoner metal band from Hyrum, Utah, active since 2013, delivering slow, heavy riffs shaped by the isolation of Cache Valley's rural landscape.
Sword is a sludge and doom metal band from Richmond, Virginia, formed in 2015, drawing on that city's storied heavy underground to deliver low, slow, and punishing guitar-driven music.
San Francisco crossover thrash outfit active since 1998, drawing equally from Bay Area thrash tradition and hardcore punk to produce a fast, aggressive sound with strong street-level attitude.
Arlington, Texas band formed in 2013 working in a heavy/thrash metal vein with hard rock influences, named after the famous multiple-personality case and suggesting a similarly multifaceted approach to heavy music.
Rising Sun, Maryland band formed in 2020 that pursues a progressive heavy and thrash metal sound, building on classic metal foundations with expanded song structures and technical ambition.
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.
Syranax is a thrash/speed metal band from Austin, Texas, formed in 2022, bringing high-velocity riffing and old-school aggression to the Texas metal scene.
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