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Proof (2024)
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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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An Austin, Texas raw black metal act formed in 2022, Torture embraces lo-fi production and primitive aggression — deliberately corrosive and antagonistic in the tradition of underground USBM's most unpolished factions.
Houston, Texas death metal act Torture formed in 2022, contributing to the city's prolific extreme metal output with a direct, no-frills approach to the genre.
Chicago's Torture takes an experimental approach to slam and brutal death metal, pushing the genre toward gorenoise territory with a boundary-defying ugliness that distinguishes them from more straightforward acts.
A thrash metal act based out of El Paso, Texas (listed under California on some databases), Torture pursues the raw, stripped-back end of the genre with a foundation in classic 80s thrash aggression.
Buffalo, New York's Torture Agenda smashes together grindcore ferocity, speed metal momentum, and crust punk's D-beat-rooted rawness into a chaotic, high-velocity assault formed in 2021.
Based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Torture Ascendancy 1307 has been delivering death metal since 2014, rooted in the East Coast underground with a name that evokes historical brutality.
Concord, California's Torture Chamber has been active since 1998, making them one of the longer-running black metal acts from the Bay Area's underground — a testament to persistence in an unforgiving scene.
Sacramento, California's Torture DC traces a trajectory from thrash and speed metal roots into heavier death metal territory, with a sound that has evolved and darkened over time since their formation in 2022.
Torture Garden is a doom/death/black metal band from Liverpool, active since 2015. Named after the decadent novel by Octave Mirbeau, their music explores the darkest intersections of doom, death, and black metal.
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