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Toranaga UK, Back From the Thrash-Metal Hiatus

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The home of a revived UK thrash-metal band, documenting its records, videos, Bandcamp presence, and 2026 European tour dates.

Why it surfaced

Toranaga UK compresses a late-1980s metal story, a 2013 detour as The Bastard Son Of Toranaga, a 2025 EP called A New Order, and an unusually extensive 2026 tour schedule into one working band headquarters. It is a concrete, human-scale record of a musical project refusing to disappear quietly.

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