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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Wichita, Kansas' Torrent brings melodic death metal to the plains, pairing Scandinavian-influenced melody with the brutality of American death metal since 2014.
Boise, Idaho's Torrent fuses groove metal's lockstep heaviness with death metal's aggression, a straightforward and punishing act formed in 2014.
Formed in Murfreesboro, Tennessee in 2021, Torsion plays death metal with the directness and physicality that defines the American underground — a young band with a punishing approach.
Seattle's Torsion brings Pacific Northwest grit to death metal, part of a city with a long tradition of extreme metal that dates back to the early 90s.
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.
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