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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Santa Fe, New Mexico's Torn Between Worlds, active since 2013, occupies an unusual space between avant-garde metal and hardcore, building dissonant and unpredictable structures that resist easy categorization. Their high-desert southwestern setting lends their experimental approach a distinctive outsider quality.
Torn Face is a stoner metal band from Edinburgh, active since 2011. Their music delivers heavy, fuzz-driven stoner riffs from Scotland's capital, contributing to Edinburgh's growing heavy music community.
Torn from Earth is a sludge metal band from Budapest, Hungary, active since 2009. They create heavy, abrasive sludge with crushing riffs and oppressive atmospheres.
Denver's Torn from Existence, formed in 2024, pursues blackened symphonic death metal — layering orchestral elements over black and death metal extremity for a dramatic, cinematic intensity. Colorado's active extreme metal community provides fertile ground for this kind of ambitious, theatrically inclined approach.
Boston's Torn in Half, formed in 2020, plays straightforward death metal rooted in the genre's most punishing and unadorned traditions. Massachusetts has a strong lineage of underground death metal, and this band slots neatly into that history with a focus on brutality over innovation.
Torn in Half from Newark, Ohio formed in 2020, delivering death metal from a small midwestern city with a no-frills, underground-first mentality. Their presence in a region far from major scene centers reflects the decentralized character of American death metal's grassroots network.
New Jersey's Torn Open, formed in 2025, brings deathcore and death metal together with the aggressive intensity typical of the genre's modern East Coast practitioners. As one of the newest bands in the state's heavy underground, they enter a New Jersey scene with well-established appetite for brutal, downtuned extremity.
Portland, Oregon's Torn to Pieces, formed in 2022, draws from black, death, and thrash metal — a crossroads approach that channels three of the genre's most extreme branches into a single aggressive attack. Portland's broad and committed underground metal community makes it a natural home for boundary-blurring extremity.
Riverside, California's Torn Within, formed in 2022, plays deathcore with a death metal core, bringing the genre's characteristic low-tuned heaviness and rhythmic punishment to the Inland Empire's underground scene. The greater Los Angeles region's long deathcore infrastructure provides a strong platform for their brutality.
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