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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Totale Angoisse from Bayonne in the French Basque Country craft black metal under a French name meaning 'total anguish' since 2017. Their southwestern Atlantic coast base — where France meets the Basque Country — channels existential dread through hostile compositions.
Boston deathcore act Totality arrived in 2023 with a sound that bridges crushing deathcore breakdowns with death metal's heavier atmospheric tendencies, adding to New England's increasingly diverse extreme metal landscape.
New Orleans crossover thrash outfit Totally Possessed bring the city's irreverent energy to a genre built on speed and attitude, fusing thrash metal's riff attack with hardcore punk's blunt force since 2017.
Totanoll are a black metal band from Aalst, Belgium, maintaining a Bandcamp presence under the handle 'totall.' The project operates in the Belgian black metal underground with minimal public documentation, consistent with the low-profile approach common to many Belgian raw black metal acts.
New Orleans sludge metal band Totem draw on the city's legendary tradition of low-end heaviness, building slow-churning riff structures and oppressive grooves in the spirit of the Southern swamp metal the region has long exported.
San Francisco's Totem approach doom metal through a psychedelic lens, layering hazy, reverb-soaked atmospheres over glacially slow riff progressions in a style that reflects the Bay Area's history of mind-expanding heavy music.
Groove/heavy metal band from Brasília, Distrito Federal, formed in 2016, singing entirely in Portuguese. Their 2025 album Post Mortem is a seven-track record featuring songs such as "Escravo Perpétuo," "Vulcão Sem Dono," and "Velórios e Núpcias," available on major streaming platforms.
Totemcult is a traditional black metal band from Iquique, Chile, in the country's far north. Formed in 2022, the band released their self-titled debut full-length that same year, a seven-track record that includes a cover of Isengard's "I Kamp med Kvitekrist" and draws on themes of misanthropy and Andean cosmology.
Totemcult is a traditional black metal band from Iquique, Chile, in the country's far north. Formed in 2022, the band released their self-titled debut full-length that same year, a seven-track record that includes a cover of Isengard's "I Kamp med Kvitekrist" and draws on themes of misanthropy and Andean cosmology.
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