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Based in Coldwater, Ohio, Toluca Lake push melodic death metal into stranger territory, weaving experimental textures into their song structures to produce something more unsettling than the genre's traditional melodic fare.
Tom 5 is a hard rock/heavy metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2021. They play classic hard rock and heavy metal from the Rhineland.
Tom Gekas is an atmospheric death/doom metal project from Erkrath, Germany, formed in 2019 and evolving toward depressive black/death metal. The solo project explores the most melancholic territories of extreme metal.
Detroit's Tom Ice draw from melodic death metal's most atmospheric qualities, forging a sound shaped by the city's industrial backdrop and the twin influences of Scandinavian melody and American heaviness.
Tom Morello is one of the most innovative and politically engaged guitarists in rock history, having revolutionized the instrument's possibilities through his work with Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, and Prophets of Rage. His ability to coax turntable scratches, helicopter sounds, and otherworldly textures from a standard guitar setup, combined with his Harvard-educated political activism, made him a singular figure in both music and social justice movements. As a solo artist and collaborator, Morello continues to push the boundaries of what the electric guitar can do while using his platform to champion workers' rights and progressive causes.
Portland, Maine solo project Tom VonLuk straddles the line between deathcore and straight death metal, arriving on the scene in 2024 with a project that leans into crushing low-end and extreme vocal extremity.
Tomahawk is a heavy metal band from Turin, active since 2001. With over two decades of delivering heavy metal from the Piedmontese capital, they are among the more veteran acts in the Turin metal scene.
Miami funeral doom act Tomb have been conjuring glacially slow, grief-saturated soundscapes since 2016, dwelling in the most oppressive end of the doom spectrum where tempo yields entirely to weight and atmosphere.
Tomb is a black metal band from Kassel, Germany, formed in 2016. They deliver raw, sepulchral black metal.
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