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Turn of the Wheel (2021)
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The Black Plot - Single (2015)
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grieving and growing up (2022)
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Santa Cruz, California's Torture Hammer formed in 2024, welding death metal's heaviness to hardcore's aggression and urgency — a young band working at the collision point of two extreme traditions.
Warren, Michigan's Torture Pig formed in 2023, mining the goregrind and brutal death metal underground for maximum grotesque impact with a name as blunt as the music it represents.
Houston old-school death metal. Filthy, grinding death in the classic vein.
Brutal Blackened Death Metal from Denton, Texas/Louisville, Kentucky.
Olney, Maryland's Tortured grind at the intersection of brutal death metal and grindcore, delivering high-velocity savagery that leans on blastbeat aggression and guttural brutality in equal measure.
Fresh out of Kansas City, Tortured Form emerged in 2025 playing straight-ahead death metal with a focus on crushing riffs and morbid atmosphere, representing Missouri's latest addition to the underground death metal circuit.
A recently formed US doom/death outfit, Tortured Remains blend the dragging tempos and mournful weight of doom metal with the down-tuned brutality of death metal, working in the tradition of the genre's most sepulchral expressions.
Pinellas Park, Florida's Tortured Soul traffic in death/thrash metal that reflects the Sunshine State's long tradition of ferocious underground extremity, blending the riff attack of thrash with death metal's darker sonic palette.
Richmond, Virginia death/thrash act Torturepoint arrived in 2024 with the kind of pit-ready aggression their hometown's storied metal scene demands, drawing equally from the riff-driven ferocity of thrash and the morbid darkness of death metal.
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