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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Safe House (2017)
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A New York black/thrash outfit formed in 2014, Tornádoe wields the caustic energy of first-wave black metal against a thrash backbone — primitive, fast, and deliberately abrasive.
Eden Prairie, Minnesota's Torok plays traditional heavy metal with a hard rock edge, carrying on the classic American metal tradition since their formation in 2016.
A Concord, California groove/thrash outfit active since 2005, Torque channels the mid-90s Bay Area chug with locked-in rhythmic heaviness and thrash-driven aggression.
Bradenton, Florida's Torque blends groove metal's mid-tempo punch with industrial metal's mechanical textures and thrash-inflected bite, carving out a hard-edged sound since 2005.
Out of Garden City, Michigan, this Torque operates in the heavy metal and hard rock tradition — a Midwestern band built on riff-forward songwriting since 2005.
Ottawa, Illinois' Torque merges groove metal's rhythmic heaviness with traditional heavy metal's melodic sensibility, a working-class Midwest metal act formed in 2005.
Named after the Grand Inquisitor, Norfolk, Virginia's Torquemada delivers unrelenting death metal since 2011, drawing on the genre's most punishment-focused traditions.
Wichita, Kansas' Torrent brings melodic death metal to the plains, pairing Scandinavian-influenced melody with the brutality of American death metal since 2014.
Boise, Idaho's Torrent fuses groove metal's lockstep heaviness with death metal's aggression, a straightforward and punishing act formed in 2014.
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