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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Torpedo from Zurich ride the blackened speed metal revival with whiplash tempos and scorched vocals that recall the first-wave intensity of Bathory and early Sodom. Since 2019, they have been forging a sound rooted in the reckless velocity where black metal and speed metal first collided.
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.
Tortuaire is a Swiss black metal and dark ambient project formed in 2022, weaving together harsh atmospheric passages with haunting ambient soundscapes. The project explores the liminal space between aggressive black metal tremolo work and brooding, cinematic synth textures.
An Austin, Texas raw black metal act formed in 2022, Torture embraces lo-fi production and primitive aggression — deliberately corrosive and antagonistic in the tradition of underground USBM's most unpolished factions.
Concord, California's Torture Chamber has been active since 1998, making them one of the longer-running black metal acts from the Bay Area's underground — a testament to persistence in an unforgiving scene.
Torture Garden is a doom/death/black metal band from Liverpool, active since 2015. Named after the decadent novel by Octave Mirbeau, their music explores the darkest intersections of doom, death, and black metal.
Brutal Blackened Death Metal from Denton, Texas/Louisville, Kentucky.
Washington State's Torvus began in the black/doom metal tradition before pivoting toward gothic metal in their later work, tracing a path from bleak atmospheric extremity to darker, melodic emotional textures.
Toscrew is a black/death/doom metal band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2008. They weave together elements of all three genres into a dark, multifaceted extreme metal sound.
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