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Chicago's Tides Cult formed in 2019 at the collision of black metal's cold ferocity and hardcore's blunt-force urgency, generating a sound that's caustic and kinetic in equal measure. They're part of a broader Chicago wave pushing extreme metal into rawer, more confrontational territory.
Tiefstand from the small Bavarian village of Engelsberg craft depressive black metal whose German name — meaning 'low point' or 'nadir' — captures the abyssal emotional depths they explore since 2022. Their rural isolation feeds directly into the desolate atmosphere of their compositions.
Out of Loveland, Colorado, Tierkrieger has been carving a path through blackened death metal since 2017, blending black metal's spectral menace with death metal's physical brutality into something appropriately hostile and elemental. The project embodies the isolated, uncompromising quality often found in Colorado's extreme underground.
Tihi Sadist is a raw black metal act from Split, Croatia, active since 2005. Their name translating to 'Quiet Sadist' in Croatian, they deliver harsh, lo-fi black metal from the Dalmatian coast.
Tij is a black metal project from Finland, formed in 2014. They deliver atmospheric black metal.
Tiknazirin is a black/death metal band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2018. They deliver fierce extreme metal combining black metal's atmospheric intensity with death metal aggression.
Tilarids was a short-lived black metal project from Leopoldsburg, Belgium, active from 2008 to 2009, founded by Tiwaz after his departure from Tapetum Lucidum alongside collaborator Sorath. The duo rarely rehearsed, meeting only occasionally to record material that was never formally released beyond the compilation tape De Vlam Slaat In Het Vaandel, put out by Woudgilde Distro.
Tulsa's Till emerged in 2020 playing black metal stripped of unnecessary embellishment — raw, cold, and rooted in the most misanthropic aspects of the genre's second-wave lineage. Operating from the Oklahoma underground, the project carries the isolation of the plains into uncompromising extreme music.
Timau is a black metal band from Pordenone in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, formed in 2021. Named after the small Alpine village on the Austrian border, their music channels the cold isolation of the Carnic Alps.
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