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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.
Long-running power metal act Total Eclipse have been delivering anthemic, melody-driven metal since 1999, operating in the tradition of European-influenced power metal with a focus on soaring vocals and galloping guitar work.
Philadelphia grindcore institution Total Fucking Destruction have been a fixture of the underground since 2007, known for their politically charged, intellectually provocative approach to a genre more often associated with pure sonic brutality.
New Orleans speed metal and crossover outfit Total Hell bring the Crescent City's outsider aggression to a sound built on raw velocity and punk-metal collision, arriving in 2019 as a product of the city's perpetually fertile underground.
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.
Baltimore's Total Maniac bring a punk-edged ferocity to heavy and speed metal, channeling the working-class belligerence of Maryland's underground music scene into riff-driven, no-bullshit metal that worships at the altar of early metal excess.
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.
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