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Twenty Third Chapter is a death metal and hardcore band from Bloomington, Indiana, formed in 1997, fusing metallic hardcore's directness with death metal's extremity over nearly three decades of underground activity.
Twenty Twelve is a death metal and grindcore band from Ontario, California, formed in 2001, delivering compact bursts of extreme aggression within the death-grind tradition of the Southern California underground.
Twice the Trauma is a blackened death/grindcore band from Darlington, England, formed in 2011. They unleash a chaotic blend of black metal, brutal death metal, and grindcore with relentless extremity.
Twin Obscenity formed in Stavanger, Norway in 1991 and 1992, playing a style that blended black and death metal with Viking-era atmospheric elements. Their debut Where Light Touches None (1997) was released on Head Not Found, followed by For Blood, Honor and Soil on Century Media Records after the band signed to the label in 1998. The band released three full-length albums before disbanding.
Twist Ending is a Kentucky death metal and punk crossover band formed in 2014, fusing the brutality of death metal with the raw aggression of punk in a sound that owes as much to the D-beat tradition as to extreme metal.
Twisted Broken Bone is a death metal band from Forres, Scotland, formed in 2019. They deliver raw, punishing death metal from the Scottish Highlands underground.
Twisted Heroes is a death metal band from Olympia, Washington, formed in 2016, operating in the shadow of the Pacific Northwest underground and delivering the genre's hallmark blend of technical brutality and unrelenting heaviness.
Twitch of the Death Nerve is a brutal/death metal band from London, England, formed in 2020. Named after the classic Italian horror film, they create conceptually dense death metal with occult and theological themes across a prolific discography.
Two-Step Goodbye is a brutal death metal band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, formed in 2025. They deal in the punishing low-end crush and guttural extremity characteristic of the brutal death metal style.
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