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Featured Album
Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Still Cursed (feat. ten56.) (2024)
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Featured Power Metal Album
The Immunity Zone (2008)
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Irondale doom metal project from the Ohio underground.
Dayton crossover crew fusing hardcore punk urgency with thrash metal velocity, carrying on Ohio's proud tradition of no-frills aggressive music.
Painesville, Ohio thrash metal act whose 2017 EP Wrath of Militaristic Barbarism delivers exactly the kind of war-obsessed thrash fury the title demands from the Lake Erie shore.
Cleveland, Ohio thrash metal project with five releases since 2019. The Void Curse EP and subsequent singles blend occult themes with nuclear imagery, forging a distinctive identity in the Rock City's competitive thrash scene.
Wellsville, Ohio death/thrash outfit Cabal was a side project of Killjoy of Necrophagia formed after that band's initial breakup; the name comes from Clive Barker's novella Cabal, and the band released through Red Stream, Inc.
Columbus, Ohio thrash/speed metal band that formed in 1997 and has since split up, representing the no-frills aggression of the Ohio metal underground.
Ohio thrash/death metal band dealing in the aggressive overlap of thrash riffing and death metal intensity before splitting up.
Cincinnati's Casteless graft thrash metal's kinetic riff attack onto death metal's heavier tonal palette, producing a sound defined by high-speed picking and a raw, no-nonsense production sensibility.
Catastrophic from Akron deals in death-thrash with a gritty, Midwestern bluntness — riff-forward arrangements, low-slung grooves, and a production aesthetic that values heaviness over clarity. Their sound sits in the tradition of late-80s crossover brutality.
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