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Torture Machine is a death metal band from Santiago, Chile, formed in 2010 and currently signed to Umbrium Records. The band's lineup features guitarists Sergio Rojas and Tomás Verdugo, drummer Camilo Anrique, and vocalist Patricio Dosque, and they have released two full-lengths: Reduced to Nothingness (2023) and Shadowcult (2025).
Warren, Michigan's Torture Pig formed in 2023, mining the goregrind and brutal death metal underground for maximum grotesque impact with a name as blunt as the music it represents.
Torture Pit from Berlin merge death metal, groove metal, and hardcore into a pit-ready assault of crushing riffs and aggressive breakdowns since 2015. Their sound is built for the mosh pit, channeling the capital's vast heavy music underground into concentrated physical aggression.
Houston old-school death metal. Filthy, grinding death in the classic vein.
Thrash/death metal band from São Paulo, founded in 1990 by guitarist Cristiano Fusco, with a discography stretching from the debut Shivering (1995) through Asylum of Shadows (1999), The Unholy Spell (2001), Hellbound (2008, Armageddon Records), AEquilibrium (2010, Wacken Records), and Far Beyond Existence (2017). The band won the Wacken Battle of the Bands in 2007 and subsequently toured Europe alongside Overkill and Exodus; vocalist Mayara "Undead" Puertas joined in 2015.
Brutal Blackened Death Metal from Denton, Texas/Louisville, Kentucky.
Albuquerque, New Mexico's Torture Victim formed in 2024, bringing thrash metal's speed and antagonism to the high desert — a brand new entry in a city with a small but dedicated extreme metal scene.
Hamilton, Ohio funeral doom outfit Torture Wheel have been grinding out some of the genre's most punishing slow-motion heaviness since 2005, favoring glacial tempos and suffocating atmospheres that put them squarely in the tradition of the genre's bleakest practitioners.
Torturebitch from the small Hessian town of Grünberg deliver a raw fusion of thrash metal and punk with the confrontational energy their provocative name demands since 2015. Their crossover approach channels both genres' outsider aggression from rural central Hesse.
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