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Death metal band from Varna, Bulgaria, operating in the Black Sea port city's underground metal scene. The band shares a Bandcamp page with their self-titled release, situating them within Bulgaria's coastal metal community alongside acts like Terravore. Their name references the iconic Japanese shrine gate, suggesting a band drawn to symbolism and mythology within a death metal framework.
Torkage is a raw black metal project from Chesterfield, Derbyshire, formed in 2023. Their music embraces the lo-fi production and aggressive minimalism that define the raw black metal aesthetic.
Torke is a black metal band from Fiumicello in the province of Udine, formed in 2025. Their music delivers raw black metal from the Friulian countryside near the Slovenian border.
Torment from Elizabeth, New Jersey formed in 2021, playing crossover thrash that blends the speed and spite of hardcore punk with traditional thrash riffing. The New Jersey scene's hardscrabble energy runs through their approach, keeping things lean and hostile.
This Reading, Pennsylvania incarnation of Torment, also formed in 2021, plays straight thrash metal with a regional underground attitude and no-frills execution. Pennsylvania's long history of blue-collar heavy music shapes their no-nonsense, riff-forward approach.
Minneapolis's Torment emerged in 2021 as a thrash metal outfit drawing from the Twin Cities' historically fertile underground metal scene. Their thrash leans on the punishing rhythmic sensibility that defines midwest metal communities built far from coastal spotlight.
Cleveland's Torment blends speed and thrash metal in the tradition of a city that has produced hard-hitting heavy acts for decades. Formed in 2021, they bring a tightly wound, velocity-obsessed approach that nods toward the NWOBHM-influenced speed metal roots of the genre.
Ramsey, New Jersey's Torment is a thrash metal band formed in 2021 operating out of the dense, competitive North Jersey metal underground. Their sound adheres to the genre's essential template — fast riffs, snarling delivery, and no time wasted on ornamentation.
Torment Angel is a death metal band from Oxnard, California, formed in 2020, drawing from the Southern California underground's tradition of heavy, gutter-level brutality. Their sound leans into the dense, oppressive qualities of the genre with a coastal heaviness common to the Ventura County area's harder acts.
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