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Black/death metal band from Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, active since 2011 and operating independently. The band released the split 7" Oráculo de Fezes / Pentáculo de Crânio alongside Necrosodommy in 2016 through Arauto da Morte Records, with their side recorded at Estúdio Riff in Cuiabá, and followed it with the EP Não in 2019.
Totenmond from Backnang near Stuttgart craft progressive death metal infused with punk's rebellious energy, creating an unusual and ambitious hybrid since 2015. Their German name — 'death moon' — illuminates compositions that shift between technical complexity and raw, punk-fueled aggression.
Newly formed in 2026, Totenschlag deal in black/death metal with the kind of name — German for "manslaughter" — that signals serious intent, representing the genre's most aggressive and unforgiving tendencies.
Totmann from Hesse blend melodic death metal, gothic metal, and groove metal with electronic elements, creating an unusually eclectic extreme metal hybrid formed in 2025. Their German name — meaning 'dead man' or referencing a safety switch — captures both the morbid and mechanical aspects of their multi-genre approach.
A Minneapolis death metal and deathcore outfit formed in 2024, Touch of Malice brings the punishing low-end brutality of modern deathcore together with the riff-driven intensity of straight death metal, marking themselves as one of the Twin Cities' newest extreme metal voices.
Tourette from Reims deliver grindcore and death 'n' roll with the uncontrollable, involuntary intensity their neurological-syndrome name suggests since 2006. Nearly two decades of output from the Champagne capital has produced compositions as unpredictable as their namesake condition.
Formed in 2023 in Colorado Springs, Tovenaar weaves together progressive black and death metal into dense, ambitious compositions that prioritize atmosphere and structural complexity over straightforward aggression — a bold stylistic statement from a young act in Colorado's mountain-city underground.
Toward the Throne from the Grand Est region evolved from progressive and melodic death metal into atmospheric black and death metal, reflecting a darkening creative trajectory since 2012. Over a decade of throne-seeking compositions from eastern France has produced increasingly atmospheric and hostile music.
Active since 2009 out of Lynchburg, Virginia, Towards Global Holocaust traffic in the raw and confrontational territory where black metal's cold tremolo work collides with the grinding brutality of death metal, carrying a relentless, uncompromising edge through their long tenure in the underground.
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