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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Danse Macabre (2022)
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Safe House (2017)
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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.
Haworth, New Jersey's Torrential Downpour takes groove metal in a technical direction, layering intricate rhythmic shifts beneath heavy, momentum-driven riffwork since 2009.
A West Virginia melodic black metal project formed in 2013, Torrid Husk balances atmospheric melody with the raw intensity of black metal, hailing from a state with a sparse but committed underground scene.
Formed in Murfreesboro, Tennessee in 2021, Torsion plays death metal with the directness and physicality that defines the American underground — a young band with a punishing approach.
Seattle's Torsion brings Pacific Northwest grit to death metal, part of a city with a long tradition of extreme metal that dates back to the early 90s.
A brand new Houston, Texas outfit formed in 2025, Torso Mastectomy dives straight into slam and brutal death metal's most visceral territory, adding to Texas' deep tradition of extreme heaviness.
A New Jersey thrash act formed in 2020, Tortoise Grenade channels old-school aggression and the East Coast's no-frills approach to the genre — loud, fast, and uncompromising.
Pennsylvania's Tortuary has been grinding out brutal death metal since their formation, favoring density and extremity over accessibility in the tradition of the East Coast's most unrelenting acts.
Cleveland, Ohio's Tortuary operates in classic death metal territory, drawing on the Rust Belt's blue-collar brutality to deliver stripped-down, no-frills extreme metal.
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