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Total Brutal Terror is a death metal/grindcore band from Sagunto, Spain, formed in 2023. Their name accurately describes their sonic approach — total, brutal terror.
Total Consumption is a death metal/grindcore band from London, active since 2017. Their music delivers relentless blasts of extreme music that consume everything in their path with death metal brutality and grindcore velocity.
Salem, Oregon's Total Darkness sink into the murk of death/doom metal, dragging riffs through oppressive tempos and graveyard atmospheres that suit the Pacific Northwest's brooding climate.
Total Devastation from the southeastern Finnish port of Kotka deliver industrial death metal that mechanizes brutality through grinding, factory-floor aggression since 2012. Over a decade from this industrial harbor city, they have merged death metal with the cold precision of industrial music.
Texas-based blackened death metal project Total Human Genocide Division 218 operate at the violent intersection of black and death metal, delivering misanthropic extremity under a name that leaves no ambiguity about their sonic intentions.
New York brutal death metal act Total Invasion trade in the relentless, pulverizing style the state's underground has long championed, locking into the dense rhythmic brutality and guttural extremity of the genre's most uncompromising wing.
Total Massacre from Athens deliver death metal with the complete, unsparing carnage their name demands since 2017. Their compositions channel total slaughter from the Greek capital's death metal underground.
Total Terror was a Swedish death metal and crust punk side project formed in Örebro in 1993 by Dan Swanö and Benny Larsson, both central members of Edge of Sanity, with Andreas Axelsson joining on bass to complete a lineup of three-fifths of that band. The project recorded a crushing set of Swedish-language crust-influenced death metal at Swanö's Unisound studio, but failed to secure a label deal at the time of recording. Their material circulated in the underground for years before Vic Records released a self-titled album in 2009; Century Media later collaborated on a remixed and remastered 30th anniversary edition in 2024 that included the original 1993 demo.
Boston deathcore act Totality arrived in 2023 with a sound that bridges crushing deathcore breakdowns with death metal's heavier atmospheric tendencies, adding to New England's increasingly diverse extreme metal landscape.
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