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Traumatic Voyage is an avant-garde/progressive death/black metal band from Munich, Germany, active since 1992. With over three decades of boundary-pushing extreme metal, they are among the most veteran avant-garde acts in the German scene.
Traumatismo de Kraneo is a thrash/crossover band from Del Viso, Buenos Aires Province. They released the EP "Holocausto Nuclear" in 2011 and the full-length album "Cavando Nuestra Propia Tumba" on April 30, 2015, and have performed at Argentine thrash festival events in Buenos Aires.
Detroit's Traumatize have been forging a hybrid of heavy and thrash metal since 2011, bringing the Motor City's industrial toughness to a sound that leans into classic riff construction and aggressive delivery.
Traumatized is a death metal band from Carlow, Ireland, formed in 2025. They deliver aggressive, visceral death metal from the Irish underground.
Traumator is a thrash metal band from Münster, Germany, formed in 2014. They deliver relentless thrash metal from the Westphalian capital.
The enigmatic American black metal act Traumfresser — whose name translates roughly to "dream devourer" — emerged in 2022 with an identity deliberately kept in shadow, letting the rawness of the music speak without geographic or personal context.
Augusta, Georgia's Traumgeist have been threading together progressive death and black metal since 2018, crafting music that resists easy categorization by layering melodic sophistication over the genre's darker extremes.
Falmouth, Maine's Traumor are among the newer voices in American black metal, forming in 2026 with a sound shaped by the bleak, rural isolation of the northeastern coastline.
Trautonist is a post-black metal band from Koblenz, Germany, formed in 2016. They explore atmospheric, emotionally charged post-black metal from the Rhine-Moselle confluence.
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