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Featured Album
Death's Forgotten Children (2023)
Featured Death Metal Album
Necromanteum (2023)
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One Day Closer to the End of the World (2019)
05/12 @ The Basement East, Nashville
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
From Days Unto Darkness (2019)
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Adonis is a speed and thrash metal band from Los Angeles. Their sound nods to the classic speed metal revival while incorporating modern production sensibilities, drawing from LA's rich tradition of high-velocity metal.
AfterShock is a thrash metal band with roots in Honolulu, Hawaii, later based in San Francisco. Their 2020 full-length "RiSk - High-Risk Behavior" brings an island-to-mainland thrash metal attack across eleven tracks.
Agnostic Priest is a thrash and speed metal band from Oakland, California. Their 2019 full-length "Final Stand" delivers eight tracks of high-velocity thrash from the East Bay.
Oakland speed metal project from the California underground.
Whittier/Pico Rivera, California thrash metal act with four releases since 2015. Their full-length Mercurion and subsequent singles deliver tight, precise thrash from the southeast LA suburbs, keeping the region's legacy of speed metal alive.
Alameda, California black metal and speed metal project whose releases channel the Bay Area's fog-shrouded atmosphere through raw extremity since 2012. The German-inflected name adds a martial edge.
Colfax, California speed/thrash metal act from the Sierra Nevada foothills, channeling Gold Country's rugged frontier spirit into relentless, old-school aggression.
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