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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Totenwache from Hamburg craft black metal under the banner of 'death watch,' maintaining a vigil of atmospheric extremity from Germany's northern port since 2017. Their name evokes the ancient practice of watching over the dead, mirrored in their patient, brooding compositions.
Totenwacht from Munich blend black metal with ambient textures under a similar 'death watch' banner, creating layered compositions that oscillate between aggression and ethereal calm since 2017. Their dual approach — harsh black metal and contemplative ambient — reflects the tension between violence and stillness in their vigil.
Tothem is a gothic metal band from Rome, active since 2013. Their tribal, totem-inspired name adds an ancient mysticism to their gothic metal from the Eternal City.
Totholz from Saxony craft black metal whose name — 'deadwood' — channels the decaying forests of eastern Germany through raw, nature-obsessed compositions since 2021. Their sound mirrors the lifecycle of the woodland floor, where death and rot feed new growth.
Totmann from Hesse blend melodic death metal, gothic metal, and groove metal with electronic elements, creating an unusually eclectic extreme metal hybrid formed in 2025. Their German name — meaning 'dead man' or referencing a safety switch — captures both the morbid and mechanical aspects of their multi-genre approach.
Avant-garde black metal project from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, active since 2009. Their debut album (A)Existencial, released April 1, 2017, was written, recorded, and produced entirely by the band at Riff Studio in Belo Horizonte, and contains eight tracks exploring themes of chaos, existence, and occultism.
Totëmwolf is a speed/thrash metal/punk band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2013. They fuse speed and thrash metal with punk's raw energy.
A Minneapolis death metal and deathcore outfit formed in 2024, Touch of Malice brings the punishing low-end brutality of modern deathcore together with the riff-driven intensity of straight death metal, marking themselves as one of the Twin Cities' newest extreme metal voices.
Touche Amore formed in Los Angeles in 2007 and became one of post-hardcore's most emotionally articulate bands by pairing frantic brevity with plainspoken vulnerability. Their early records, To the Beat of a Dead Horse and Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me, established a sound built from rushing drums, ringing guitars, and Jeremy Bolm's cracked, urgent vocal delivery. Is Survived By expanded the architecture, while Stage Four turned grief over Bolm's mother's death into the band's most devastating and widely recognized statement. Lament and Spiral in a Straight Line continued to refine the balance between melodic sweep, hardcore economy, and lyrical self-interrogation. Touche Amore fit punk, hardcore, and post-hardcore scope directly; their music comes from basement intensity even when the arrangements grow larger. The band is heavy in feeling as much as volume, using short songs and direct language to avoid melodrama. At their best, Touche Amore make emotional exposure feel disciplined, letting nervous guitars and relentless percussion carry the parts of grief that ordinary speech cannot hold.
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