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Total Terror was a Swedish death metal and crust punk side project formed in Örebro in 1993 by Dan Swanö and Benny Larsson, both central members of Edge of Sanity, with Andreas Axelsson joining on bass to complete a lineup of three-fifths of that band. The project recorded a crushing set of Swedish-language crust-influenced death metal at Swanö's Unisound studio, but failed to secure a label deal at the time of recording. Their material circulated in the underground for years before Vic Records released a self-titled album in 2009; Century Media later collaborated on a remixed and remastered 30th anniversary edition in 2024 that included the original 1993 demo.
Total Violence from Kellinghusen in Schleswig-Holstein deliver thrash metal with the uncompromising aggression their blunt name promises since 2016. Their sound channels pure, unfiltered thrash fury from the flatlands between Hamburg and the Danish border.
New York crossover outfit Total Waste formed in 2023, bringing together the fury of hardcore punk and the riff aggression of thrash metal into a sound built for the pit and the chaos of the underground live circuit.
Totale Angoisse from Bayonne in the French Basque Country craft black metal under a French name meaning 'total anguish' since 2017. Their southwestern Atlantic coast base — where France meets the Basque Country — channels existential dread through hostile compositions.
Boston deathcore act Totality arrived in 2023 with a sound that bridges crushing deathcore breakdowns with death metal's heavier atmospheric tendencies, adding to New England's increasingly diverse extreme metal landscape.
New Orleans crossover thrash outfit Totally Possessed bring the city's irreverent energy to a genre built on speed and attitude, fusing thrash metal's riff attack with hardcore punk's blunt force since 2017.
Totanoll are a black metal band from Aalst, Belgium, maintaining a Bandcamp presence under the handle 'totall.' The project operates in the Belgian black metal underground with minimal public documentation, consistent with the low-profile approach common to many Belgian raw black metal acts.
New Orleans sludge metal band Totem draw on the city's legendary tradition of low-end heaviness, building slow-churning riff structures and oppressive grooves in the spirit of the Southern swamp metal the region has long exported.
San Francisco's Totem approach doom metal through a psychedelic lens, layering hazy, reverb-soaked atmospheres over glacially slow riff progressions in a style that reflects the Bay Area's history of mind-expanding heavy music.
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