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Total Brutal Terror is a death metal/grindcore band from Sagunto, Spain, formed in 2023. Their name accurately describes their sonic approach — total, brutal terror.
Total Collapse from Denmark deliver thrash metal with the catastrophic, structural-failure intensity their name promises since 2018. Their sound channels the genre's most destructive impulses into compositions of systemic demolition.
Total Consumption is a death metal/grindcore band from London, active since 2017. Their music delivers relentless blasts of extreme music that consume everything in their path with death metal brutality and grindcore velocity.
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.
Muskegon, Michigan's Total Eclipse play heavy metal with strong hard rock roots, representing the Great Lakes region's taste for straightforward, fist-pumping metal with classic rock accessibility.
Los Angeles heavy metal outfit Total Eclipse draw from the deep well of Southern California's traditional metal scene, favoring no-frills riff-driven songwriting in the tradition of the city's storied underground.
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.
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