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A Saint Paul project born in 2025, Toward Eternity blend heavy, gothic, and doom metal into a brooding, melodically rich sound, drawing equally from 90s gothic rock atmosphere and traditional doom's slow, crushing weight.
Active since 2009 out of Lynchburg, Virginia, Towards Global Holocaust traffic in the raw and confrontational territory where black metal's cold tremolo work collides with the grinding brutality of death metal, carrying a relentless, uncompromising edge through their long tenure in the underground.
A death metal project out of Ocean City, Maryland, formed in 2025, Towards the Lack Diorama are among the newest entries in the Mid-Atlantic extreme metal scene, pursuing a sound rooted in the genre's most direct and punishing traditions.
New York's Tower, active since 2016, channels the spirit of classic heavy metal — muscular riffing, soaring vocals, and a devotion to the analog warmth of the genre's golden era — into a sound that feels both reverent and genuinely alive.
St. Augustine, Florida's Tower deal in the slow and crushing intersection of doom and sludge metal, leaning into feedback-drenched heaviness and plodding tempos that reward patient listening with a suffocating sense of weight.
A New York crossover thrash band formed in 2024, Tower 7 blend the punk aggression and short-burst energy of hardcore with the riff velocity of thrash, arriving at a sound built for circle pits and chaos.
San Bernardino's Tower Guard, active since 2021, fuse the melodic sweep of Gothenburg-style death metal with the soaring choruses and compositional ambition of power metal, crafting a sound that is simultaneously aggressive and anthemic.
Oshkosh, Wisconsin's Tower of Babel have been crafting melodic black metal since 2014, infusing the genre's characteristic icy atmosphere with hooks and structural clarity that give their sound a distinct sense of purposeful grandeur.
Boston's Tower of Babel, formed in 2014, work in the tradition of epic heavy and power metal, delivering the kind of larger-than-life riffs and anthemic songwriting that has defined the genre's most theatrical wing.
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