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Torture Killer is a death/groove metal band from Turku, Finland, active since 2009. They combine death metal's brutality with groove metal's rhythmic heaviness.
Torture Machine is a death metal band from Santiago, Chile, formed in 2010 and currently signed to Umbrium Records. The band's lineup features guitarists Sergio Rojas and Tomás Verdugo, drummer Camilo Anrique, and vocalist Patricio Dosque, and they have released two full-lengths: Reduced to Nothingness (2023) and Shadowcult (2025).
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.
Torture Pit from Berlin merge death metal, groove metal, and hardcore into a pit-ready assault of crushing riffs and aggressive breakdowns since 2015. Their sound is built for the mosh pit, channeling the capital's vast heavy music underground into concentrated physical aggression.
Houston old-school death metal. Filthy, grinding death in the classic vein.
Thrash/death metal band from São Paulo, founded in 1990 by guitarist Cristiano Fusco, with a discography stretching from the debut Shivering (1995) through Asylum of Shadows (1999), The Unholy Spell (2001), Hellbound (2008, Armageddon Records), AEquilibrium (2010, Wacken Records), and Far Beyond Existence (2017). The band won the Wacken Battle of the Bands in 2007 and subsequently toured Europe alongside Overkill and Exodus; vocalist Mayara "Undead" Puertas joined in 2015.
Brutal Blackened Death Metal from Denton, Texas/Louisville, Kentucky.
Olney, Maryland's Tortured grind at the intersection of brutal death metal and grindcore, delivering high-velocity savagery that leans on blastbeat aggression and guttural brutality in equal measure.
Tortured by Sanity from Turku deliver melodic death metal whose paradoxical name suggests that normalcy itself is a source of torment, formed in 2025. Their compositions channel the anguish of lucidity through the Finnish melodic death metal tradition.
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