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Formed in Murfreesboro, Tennessee in 2021, Torsion plays death metal with the directness and physicality that defines the American underground — a young band with a punishing approach.
Seattle's Torsion brings Pacific Northwest grit to death metal, part of a city with a long tradition of extreme metal that dates back to the early 90s.
Torso is a death metal/grindcore band from El Ejido, Spain, formed in 2014. They combine death metal's heaviness with grindcore's velocity from the Almería coast.
A brand new Houston, Texas outfit formed in 2025, Torso Mastectomy dives straight into slam and brutal death metal's most visceral territory, adding to Texas' deep tradition of extreme heaviness.
Torsofuck is a slam/brutal death metal/goregrind band from Harjavalta, Finland, formed in 2025. They deliver the most extreme, graphic goregrind and slam death metal.
Tort is a sludge metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2012. They deliver crushing, abrasive sludge metal from the Catalan capital.
Tortharry are Czech death metal veterans from the small town of Hronov, active since 1994 and among the longest-running death metal acts in the country. Three decades of brutal output have established them as an institution in the Czech extreme metal scene, consistently delivering punishing, no-compromise death metal.
A New Jersey thrash act formed in 2020, Tortoise Grenade channels old-school aggression and the East Coast's no-frills approach to the genre — loud, fast, and uncompromising.
Tortuaire is a Swiss black metal and dark ambient project formed in 2022, weaving together harsh atmospheric passages with haunting ambient soundscapes. The project explores the liminal space between aggressive black metal tremolo work and brooding, cinematic synth textures.
Pennsylvania's Tortuary has been grinding out brutal death metal since their formation, favoring density and extremity over accessibility in the tradition of the East Coast's most unrelenting acts.
Cleveland, Ohio's Tortuary operates in classic death metal territory, drawing on the Rust Belt's blue-collar brutality to deliver stripped-down, no-frills extreme metal.
Tortuga formed in Poznań, Poland in 2016, quickly establishing themselves in the psychedelic stoner and doom metal underground with a Lovecraft-inspired debut album Deities (2020) that followed an earlier self-titled EP. The band signed a worldwide deal with Napalm Records in 2021, and their album Iterations followed in 2023, furthering their dense, riff-heavy approach infused with psychedelic atmosphere. Their sound draws on classic stoner doom traditions while incorporating the kind of occult-adjacent thematic content common to the contemporary European heavy underground.
Tortur from Duisburg fuse melodic death metal with pagan metal themes, creating an unusual blend of Scandinavian-style melody and nature-worshipping grandeur from the Rhine-Ruhr region since 2016. Their German-for-'torture' name belies the melodic sophistication they bring to extreme metal.
An Austin, Texas raw black metal act formed in 2022, Torture embraces lo-fi production and primitive aggression — deliberately corrosive and antagonistic in the tradition of underground USBM's most unpolished factions.
Houston, Texas death metal act Torture formed in 2022, contributing to the city's prolific extreme metal output with a direct, no-frills approach to the genre.
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