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People Watching (2024)
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L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
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Among the Shadows (2024)
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Toilet Warfare is a black/death metal band from Monza, formed in 2021. Their absurdist name belies the serious extremity of their black and death metal from the Lombard city.
Madison, Wisconsin's Toiletectomy play slam-inflected brutal death metal with a grotesque premise and an equally grotesque sound, formed in 2023 and committed to the subgenre's signature low-tuned savagery and guttural absurdity.
Wilmington, North Carolina's Toke have been delivering fuzz-drenched, smoke-soaked sludge and stoner metal since 2015 — the kind of slow, heavy music made for maximum volume and minimal sobriety, built from the coastal South's laid-back heaviness.
Toke de Keda is a crossover thrash band from Santiago, Chile, formed in 2005 and currently releasing on Sarri-Sarri Distro & Records. They have three full-lengths to their name — Actitud, kaaos & metalpunk (2013), Holocaust: Nightmare of Death! (2017), and Atomic Discharge (2023) — mixing metal punk with sharp political and social commentary.
Tokyo Blade is a NWOBHM/heavy metal band from Salisbury, Wiltshire, one of the classic acts of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Originally active in the 1980s and reformed, they continue to deliver the twin-guitar attack and anthemic hooks that made them part of NWOBHM history.
Lansing, Illinois's Tokyo Dawn formed in 2025 carrying a classic heavy metal banner, bringing the genre's traditional riff-and-melody formula to the Chicago South suburbs with an old-school sensibility in a modern context.
Tokyo Rose is a NWOBHM-influenced heavy metal band from Durham in northeast England, formed in 2014. Their music draws from the raw energy and classic riffing of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal tradition.
Tol Morwen is a melodic death metal band from Nonantola near Modena, formed in 2018. Named after the island in Tolkien's Silmarillion, their music channels fantasy themes through melodic death metal.
Tolaeth is a black metal band from Conwy in north Wales, formed in 2020. Their Welsh name, meaning 'fate' or 'destiny,' grounds their black metal in the ancient Celtic culture and dramatic landscapes of Snowdonia.
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