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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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A Concord, California groove/thrash outfit active since 2005, Torque channels the mid-90s Bay Area chug with locked-in rhythmic heaviness and thrash-driven aggression.
Bradenton, Florida's Torque blends groove metal's mid-tempo punch with industrial metal's mechanical textures and thrash-inflected bite, carving out a hard-edged sound since 2005.
Out of Garden City, Michigan, this Torque operates in the heavy metal and hard rock tradition — a Midwestern band built on riff-forward songwriting since 2005.
Ottawa, Illinois' Torque merges groove metal's rhythmic heaviness with traditional heavy metal's melodic sensibility, a working-class Midwest metal act formed in 2005.
Named after the Grand Inquisitor, Norfolk, Virginia's Torquemada delivers unrelenting death metal since 2011, drawing on the genre's most punishment-focused traditions.
Torquemeda is a band from Lanciano in Abruzzo whose sound has evolved from death/doom into gothic/progressive metal since 2011. Named after the Spanish Grand Inquisitor, their stylistic transformation mirrors a journey from the extremity of the Inquisition to more nuanced artistic expression.
Torrax bring power metal from the medieval silver-mining city of Kutná Hora, pairing epic melodies and soaring vocals with driving metal power since 2019. The historic grandeur of their UNESCO-listed hometown finds a sonic parallel in their ambitious, larger-than-life compositions.
Wichita, Kansas' Torrent brings melodic death metal to the plains, pairing Scandinavian-influenced melody with the brutality of American death metal since 2014.
Boise, Idaho's Torrent fuses groove metal's lockstep heaviness with death metal's aggression, a straightforward and punishing act formed in 2014.
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