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One of the oldest USBM bands, active since 1993. Named after the Isengard song. Released on Werewolf Records with decades of raw, bestial output.
Thornuz is a blackened death metal band from Aachen, Germany, formed in 2015. They fuse blackened atmospherics with death metal's crushing brutality.
Thoronath is a black metal band from Hyvinkää, Finland, formed in 2012. They channel atmospheric black metal from the southern Finnish underground.
Thorondir is a Viking/black metal band from Waldsassen, Germany, formed in 2011. They blend Norse Viking themes with raw black metal aggression.
Georgia's Thos Ælla formed in 2021 and operates in the murky, aggressive territory where death and black metal collide, drawing on both traditions without fully committing to either. The Old English name signals an interest in antiquity, and their sound carries a primitive rawness that fits the aesthetic.
Auburn, California's Those Who Live in Death formed in 2025, making them one of the newest entries in the American black metal underground. Drawing from the genre's traditional arsenal of blast-beaten fury and bleak atmosphere, the project is still in its nascent stages but arrives with a name that signals death-fixated intent.
Depressive black metal act from Burgas, Bulgaria, named for the ancient Egyptian deity of knowledge and writing. The project released two EPs and maintains a presence on Bandcamp, with tracks like 'Waiting for You' and 'From the Abyss of Dungeons of Darkness' reflecting the isolation-drenched aesthetic typical of the depressive black metal subgenre. Thoth functions as a solo or minimal-lineup project operating squarely within the more introspective and despairing wing of Bulgarian black metal.
Erie, Pennsylvania's Thoth Atlantean blend death and black metal through a lens of esoteric, occult mythology, their name invoking both Egyptian cosmology and the lost-civilization mythology of Atlantis. Formed in 2017, the band pursues an extreme metal sound with intellectual and mystical underpinnings that set them apart from straightforward genre acts.
Atlanta's Thoth Nemesis formed in 2014 and wages sonic warfare through blackened thrash, pairing the reckless speed and aggression of thrash metal with the cold, satanic atmosphere of black metal. The Georgia act pulls from both traditions without diluting either, keeping the attack raw and the mood unrelentingly dark.
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