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Torso is a death metal/grindcore band from El Ejido, Spain, formed in 2014. They combine death metal's heaviness with grindcore's velocity from the Almería coast.
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.
Tortharry are Czech death metal veterans from the small town of Hronov, active since 1994 and among the longest-running death metal acts in the country. Three decades of brutal output have established them as an institution in the Czech extreme metal scene, consistently delivering punishing, no-compromise 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.
Tortur from Duisburg fuse melodic death metal with pagan metal themes, creating an unusual blend of Scandinavian-style melody and nature-worshipping grandeur from the Rhine-Ruhr region since 2016. Their German-for-'torture' name belies the melodic sophistication they bring to extreme metal.
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.
Based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Torture Ascendancy 1307 has been delivering death metal since 2014, rooted in the East Coast underground with a name that evokes historical brutality.
Sacramento, California's Torture DC traces a trajectory from thrash and speed metal roots into heavier death metal territory, with a sound that has evolved and darkened over time since their formation in 2022.
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