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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.
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.
Minneapolis black 'n' roll project Total Poison formed in 2025, fusing the raw electricity of rock and roll swagger with black metal's cold menace in a style that prioritizes hooks and attitude alongside darkness.
Total Terror was a Swedish death metal and crust punk side project formed in Örebro in 1993 by Dan Swanö and Benny Larsson, both central members of Edge of Sanity, with Andreas Axelsson joining on bass to complete a lineup of three-fifths of that band. The project recorded a crushing set of Swedish-language crust-influenced death metal at Swanö's Unisound studio, but failed to secure a label deal at the time of recording. Their material circulated in the underground for years before Vic Records released a self-titled album in 2009; Century Media later collaborated on a remixed and remastered 30th anniversary edition in 2024 that included the original 1993 demo.
Total Violence from Kellinghusen in Schleswig-Holstein deliver thrash metal with the uncompromising aggression their blunt name promises since 2016. Their sound channels pure, unfiltered thrash fury from the flatlands between Hamburg and the Danish border.
New York crossover outfit Total Waste formed in 2023, bringing together the fury of hardcore punk and the riff aggression of thrash metal into a sound built for the pit and the chaos of the underground live circuit.
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.
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