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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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Washington State's Torrent operates at the technically ambitious crossroads of thrash, speed, and progressive metal, built for listeners who want complexity alongside velocity, active since 2014.
Haworth, New Jersey's Torrential Downpour takes groove metal in a technical direction, layering intricate rhythmic shifts beneath heavy, momentum-driven riffwork since 2009.
Torrey Canyon from Sélestat in Alsace deliver stoner and groove metal named after the infamous 1967 oil tanker disaster since 2020. Their environmental-catastrophe reference drives compositions of sludgy, oil-slicked heaviness from the Rhine valley.
Torrid from Nuremberg deliver heavy metal and hard rock with the scorching heat their name promises since 2013. Their Franconian base provides the foundation for riff-driven compositions that burn with classic metal intensity.
A West Virginia melodic black metal project formed in 2013, Torrid Husk balances atmospheric melody with the raw intensity of black metal, hailing from a state with a sparse but committed underground scene.
Formed in Murfreesboro, Tennessee in 2021, Torsion plays death metal with the directness and physicality that defines the American underground — a young band with a punishing approach.
Seattle's Torsion brings Pacific Northwest grit to death metal, part of a city with a long tradition of extreme metal that dates back to the early 90s.
Torso is a death metal/grindcore band from El Ejido, Spain, formed in 2014. They combine death metal's heaviness with grindcore's velocity from the Almería coast.
A brand new Houston, Texas outfit formed in 2025, Torso Mastectomy dives straight into slam and brutal death metal's most visceral territory, adding to Texas' deep tradition of extreme heaviness.
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