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Raw black metal project from Belarus whose Bandcamp page documents their dedication to the most stripped-back and primitive end of the black metal spectrum. The band's name is French for 'torturer,' signaling an embrace of obscure, European-influenced raw black metal aesthetics common to underground Belarusian projects. Their recordings prioritize harshness and atmosphere over production, consistent with the lo-fi ethos of the global raw black metal underground.
Formed in 2023 in Colorado Springs, Tovenaar weaves together progressive black and death metal into dense, ambitious compositions that prioritize atmosphere and structural complexity over straightforward aggression — a bold stylistic statement from a young act in Colorado's mountain-city underground.
Toward the Throne from the Grand Est region evolved from progressive and melodic death metal into atmospheric black and death metal, reflecting a darkening creative trajectory since 2012. Over a decade of throne-seeking compositions from eastern France has produced increasingly atmospheric and hostile music.
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.
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.
Philadelphia's Tower of Babel, active since 2014, approach post-black metal with an emphasis on texture and emotional breadth, blending the genre's dissonant tremolo foundations with the expansive, atmospheric dynamics that define the post-black movement.
Tower of Flies is a death/black metal band from Edinburgh, active since 2015. Named after a title associated with the demon Beelzebub, their music delivers extreme metal combining the brutality of death metal with the atmospheric aggression of black metal from the Scottish capital.
Tower of Silence from Lyon craft progressive black metal named after the Zoroastrian structures where the dead are exposed to carrion birds since 2018. Their dakhma-referencing name drives compositions that explore death rituals through technically ambitious extremity from France's second city.
St. Louis's Towering Filth, active since 2011, fuse the ugliness of sludge metal with black metal's hostility and hardcore's stripped-down fury, arriving at a sound that is deliberately abrasive, confrontational, and indifferent to genre boundaries.
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