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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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A death metal project out of Ocean City, Maryland, formed in 2025, Towards the Lack Diorama are among the newest entries in the Mid-Atlantic extreme metal scene, pursuing a sound rooted in the genre's most direct and punishing traditions.
San Bernardino's Tower Guard, active since 2021, fuse the melodic sweep of Gothenburg-style death metal with the soaring choruses and compositional ambition of power metal, crafting a sound that is simultaneously aggressive and anthemic.
Tower of Flies is a death/black metal band from Edinburgh, active since 2015. Named after a title associated with the demon Beelzebub, their music delivers extreme metal combining the brutality of death metal with the atmospheric aggression of black metal from the Scottish capital.
Formed in 2021 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Tower of Ruin deal in death metal marked by raw, stripped-back aggression — a regional underground band content to let the genre's core heaviness speak without embellishment.
California's Towering, active since 2016, occupy the slow, suffocating space where drone, doom, and sludge converge, building massive walls of distortion and deliberate, glacial pacing into music that functions more as a physical experience than a conventional listen.
Milwaukee's Towering Abomination have been grinding out technical and brutal death metal since 2015, combining the genre's intricate riffing and machine-like precision with the kind of raw, punishing physicality that defines the Wisconsin underground's extreme end.
Towers of Flesh is a black/death metal band from the English Midlands, active since 2010. Their music merges the atmospheric intensity of black metal with the guttural power of death metal across over a decade of activity.
A death metal act from Chula Vista, California, formed in 2020, Towers of Flesh and Blood channel a direct and unembellished approach to the genre, delivering the kind of visceral, blunt-force heaviness that anchors San Diego's death metal underground.
Portland, Maine's Toxic Cross, formed in 2018, blend the melodic sensibilities of Scandinavian death metal with thrash's riff-forward attack, producing a sound that bridges European melodic death and the rawer American thrash tradition.
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