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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Blistering Death / Thrash Metal from Framingham, Massachusetts (early); Austin, Texas (later).
Trauma Craniko is an industrial/thrash metal band from Padua, active since 1999. With over two decades of activity, they channel the mechanical aggression of industrial metal through thrash from the Veneto.
Seattle's Trauma Sounds blend black metal's harsh atmosphere with post-black metal's more expansive, textured approach, incorporating shoegaze elements into a sound that fits the grey, introspective character of the Pacific Northwest.
Traumagain is a brutal death metal band from Reggio di Calabria, formed in 2021. Their name promises repeated suffering, delivered through the relentless brutality of death metal from Italy's toe.
Traumakraniko is a thrash metal band from Bergamo, active since 1999. With over a quarter century of thrash aggression, they are among the most enduring metal acts in the Lombard foothills.
Traumata is a melodic death/folk metal band from Merzig, Germany, formed in 2023. They weave folk elements into melodic death metal from the Saarland region.
Oak Ridge, Tennessee's Traumatic Asphyxia have been dealing out death metal since 2022, bringing the genre's suffocating intensity to a corner of Appalachia not typically associated with extreme metal.
Philadelphia's Traumatic Insemination are specialists in slam and brutal death metal, formed in 2021 and committed to the sub-genre's most physically imposing qualities — crushing downtuned riffs, guttural vocals, and rhythms built to devastate.
Newark, Delaware's Traumatic Serenity work in the atmospheric black metal tradition, combining the genre's misanthropic intensity with sweeping, expansive textures since forming in 2020 in one of the East Coast's smaller but active underground scenes.
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