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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Rochester, New Hampshire brutal death metal act Tomb of Anubis deal in low-tuned savagery and relentless percussion, channeling the most punishing aspects of the brutal death subgenre from the relative isolation of New England.
Tonsillectomy from Taverny in the Paris suburbs deliver brutal death metal with the surgical violence their medical-procedure name demands since 2021. Their compositions dissect with clinical precision from the Val-d'Oise.
Boston's Torment Ritual, formed in 2025, traffics in black and brutal death metal — a ferocious combination that strips away any melody in favor of blasting savagery and menacing black metal atmosphere. As one of the city's newest extreme metal acts, they enter a Boston scene with strong ties to underground death metal.
Torn Apart is a slam/brutal death metal/hardcore band from Nottingham, active since 2015. Their music combines the guttural heaviness of slam and brutal death metal with the energy of hardcore, creating a relentless onslaught.
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.
Torsofuck is a slam/brutal death metal/goregrind band from Harjavalta, Finland, formed in 2025. They deliver the most extreme, graphic goregrind and slam death metal.
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.
Chicago's Torture takes an experimental approach to slam and brutal death metal, pushing the genre toward gorenoise territory with a boundary-defying ugliness that distinguishes them from more straightforward acts.
Warren, Michigan's Torture Pig formed in 2023, mining the goregrind and brutal death metal underground for maximum grotesque impact with a name as blunt as the music it represents.
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