This Massachusetts Tormentor plays thrash and speed metal in the tradition of the genre's most aggressive early-80s practitioners, with a high-velocity attack and classic genre attitude. Formed in 2023, they bring the sharp-edged urgency of speed metal back to the New England underground.

Washington State's Torrent operates at the technically ambitious crossroads of thrash, speed, and progressive metal, built for listeners who want complexity alongside velocity, active since 2014.

Buffalo, New York's Torture Agenda smashes together grindcore ferocity, speed metal momentum, and crust punk's D-beat-rooted rawness into a chaotic, high-velocity assault formed in 2021.

Sacramento, California's Torture DC traces a trajectory from thrash and speed metal roots into heavier death metal territory, with a sound that has evolved and darkened over time since their formation in 2022.

Hatfield, Massachusetts speed merchants Tortured Skull fuse the raw velocity of speed metal with punk attitude, carrying the torch of no-frills, pedal-to-the-floor aggression from western New England since 2016.

New Orleans speed metal and crossover outfit Total Hell bring the Crescent City's outsider aggression to a sound built on raw velocity and punk-metal collision, arriving in 2019 as a product of the city's perpetually fertile underground.

Baltimore's Total Maniac bring a punk-edged ferocity to heavy and speed metal, channeling the working-class belligerence of Maryland's underground music scene into riff-driven, no-bullshit metal that worships at the altar of early metal excess.

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania's Totentanz play technical power/speed metal with a precision-focused approach, drawing on the intricate guitar work and propulsive tempos of the genre's most demanding practitioners since their 2018 formation.

Portland, Oregon's Toxic Holocaust are one of the definitive names in the blackened speed and thrash metal revival, led by Joel Grind since 2002, forging a rawly produced and ferociously energetic sound that draws equally from early Sodom, Bathory, and Motörhead.