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Thakandar is a black/death metal band from Osnabrück, Germany, active since 2009. They combine the darkness of black metal with death metal's crushing aggression.
One-man black metal project from São Paulo, formed in 1995 by the sole member Warwolf, who also performs in the Brazilian act Evil. Thallium released the demo Gèvaudan, the full-length A Howling from a Thousand Years (2002), and the album Armanenschaft (2008), the latter drawing on the esoteric writings of Guido von List and citing early Polish black metal acts such as Graveland, Infernum, and Veles as primary influences.
Thamand is a melodic death/black metal band from Szeged, Hungary, formed in 2019. They weave together melodic death metal harmonies with black metal intensity and atmospheric depth.
Thanargonauts are a Brussels-based black metal band, operating in the Belgian underground with a Bandcamp presence at thanargonauts.bandcamp.com. Little documentation is publicly available, marking them as a deeply underground project in the tradition of anonymous Belgian black metal.
Thanatos is a death/black metal band from Steyr, Upper Austria, playing at the aggressive intersection of those two extreme metal genres. The band operates independently and maintains a presence through their Bandcamp page at thanatos-projekt.bandcamp.com.
Formed in 2024, Thanatotherion are among the newest voices in black metal's ever-expanding underground, the name itself — Greek for "beast of death" — staking a claim to the darkest corners of the tradition. Their approach is rooted in orthodox black metal's cold grammar, built for listeners who want the atmosphere of the void without unnecessary embellishment.
ThanatoΘ is an experimental black metal band from Athens, active since 1995. As one of the longest-running experimental black metal projects in Greece, their three decades of activity have seen them push the genre's boundaries from the cradle of Western civilization.
Tharaphita is a pagan black metal band from Rakvere, Estonia, active since 1997. Named after the ancient Estonian deity, they are one of the oldest pagan black metal acts in the Estonian scene.
Thaurgûl from Italy craft technical black metal under a Tolkien-derived name since 2019. Their compositions channel Middle-earth darkness through technically demanding extremity.
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