Defcon - While the Wolf Eats [2025]

Artist: Defcon

Album: While the Wolf Eats
Year: 2025
Genre: Thrash Metal / Crossover
Web: https://youtu.be/EgcrlVY_2ek / https://www.facebook.com/DefconSTL
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps
 
Tracklist:
1. Crossover  

2. The Debt  

3. While the Wolf Eats  

4. Laid to Waste  

5. Lack of Control  

6. Insomnia  

7. Half Ounce of Power  

8. Hollow Words  

9. King Leper

Witness: -[*]-

Dead Heat - Process of Elimination [2025]

Artist: Dead Heat

Album: Process of Elimination
Year: 2025
Genre: Thrash Metal / Crossover / Hardcore
Web: https://deadheatca.bandcamp.com / https://www.facebook.com/DeadHeat805
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Perpetual Punishment  

2. Annihilation Nation  

3. Hidebound  

4. The Order  

5. Enemy  

6. Seventh Gate  

7. DH Stomp  

8. Solace Denied  

9. By My Will

10. Process of Elimination  

11. Hatred Bestowed

Witness: -[*]-

Fracture - Chaos Alchemy [2024]

Artist: Fracture

Album: Chaso Alchemy
Year: 2024
Genre: Thrash Metal / Crossover
Web: https://youtu.be/ng6OE9fUVeo / https://frctr.bandcamp.com/
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Salvation Mirage

2. Chaos Alchemy

3. Hollow Fortress

4. Mutated Conscience

5. Drone

6. Sulphur Meadows

7. Street Shark

8. Catacomb

9. ExtermiNation

10. Laid to Waste

Witness: -[*]-
I saw this release back in July and listened to it and really liked it but then it got buried and I didn't listen to it for a long time, so I am just now getting around to promoting the band and learning that it is another 1-man project band. Unfortunately, that always bothers me when I really like the album because I want to imagine the songs being played in a live setting by a complete band and if it is just 1 or 2 members then you know it's studio only. 

Worst Behavior - Dragged Across Heaven (EP) [2024]

Artist: Worst Behavior

Album: Dragged Across Heaven
Year: 2024
Genre: Thrash Metal / Crossover
Web: https://youtu.be/Zpqh4r9We34 / https://www.facebook.com/worstbehaviorhc/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Prelude To Agony 

2. Worst Behavior 

3. Desperate Face 

4. Trapped In A Cage 

5. Dragged Across Heaven 

6. Uneven Despair 

Witness: -[*]-
Check out Worst Behavior from McAllen, Texas.

Overpower - Becoming the Tyrant (EP) [2024]

Artist: Overpower

Album: Becoming the Tyrant
Year: 2024
Genre: Thrash Metal / Crossover
Web: https://youtu.be/hw3Py06m40s / https://overpowerthrash.bandcamp.com
Country: United Kingdom
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Smite  

2. They Came From Beyond  

3. Terra Firma

Witness: -[*]-

Cold Steel - Deeper Into Greater Pain (EP) [2023]

Artist: Cold Steel

Album: Deeper Into Greater Pain
Year: 2023
Genre: Thrash Metal / Crossover
Web: https://youtu.be/I76frM2mI84 / https://coldsteel813.bandcamp.com/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Void  

2. The Lamb  

3. Full Tilt  

4. Evil Eye  

5. Bad Beat  

6. Into Greater Pain

Witness: -[*]-
Here is a cool little EP, only 14 minutes in length but there are some catchy thrashing-ass tracks on this disc. 

Rake-Off - Observing Madness [2022]

Artist: Rake-Off

Album: Observing Madness 
Year: 2022
Genre: Thrash Metal / Crossover
Web: https://youtu.be/vfk9WCfqVTI
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Glowing Descent

2. To Live in Fear

3. Killing Machine

4. Evil from the Depths

5. Living Paradox

6. Push Me Down

7. Eternal Curse

8. Trapped

9. Modern Slavery

10. Deathrider (Anthrax cover)

Witness: -[*]-

Kilgore Smudge - Blue Collar Solitude [1995]

Artist: Kilgore Smudge

Album: Blue Collar Solitude
Year: 1995
Genre: Metal / Crossover 
Web: https://www.facebook.com/kilgoresmudge
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Hangtime

2. Metamorphosis

3. Trial

4. Cleaner

5. Middle Way

6. Therapy

7. 3

8. Blue Collar Zen

9. Señorita Beefeater

10. Fridgafloor

11. Die Cast Mold

Witness: -[*]-
This is another cool and rare alternative metal release from the early/mid-'90s, I always liked the dude's vocal delivery and the groove in these songs. The death metal-only crowd certainly won't like this one but I do. I can't believe they are still active since I haven't heard anything from them since 1998.

Headlock - It Found Me [1994]

Artist: Headlock

Album: It Found Me
Year: 1994
Genre: Technical Thrash Metal / Crossover
Web: https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Headlock/
Country: United States
Quality: 320 kbps

Tracklist:
1. Too Much Power  

2. Reciprocation  

3. Divide and Conquer  

4. Jaws of Insanity  

5. Wake Up Screaming  

6. The Firefly  

7. Inheritance  

8. One Unconscious Deed  

9. The Lesson  

10. Another Day  

11. Blind

Witness: -[*]-
Here is an obscure band/release that some of you may find enjoyable. I found this disc in a local college record store back in the early '90s and it used to have a pretty strong rotation in my CD player but I hadn't listened to this in damn near 20 years until just recently and I am rediscovering why I liked this disc back in the day. There is some solid musicianship on display here from this trio but it is not your typical thrash metal.