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Thrash/crossover band from Brasília, Distrito Federal, formed in 2018 and operating independently. The band debuted with the EP Hazardous Aggression in December 2018, followed by the full-length Conservative Bastard in August 2020, and contributed tracks to the 4-way split Thrash Express alongside Imminent Attack, D.F.C., and HCG, released on August 27, 2021 through Tales from the Chaos Records.
Springfield, Missouri's Transylvania lean into the Gothic mythology their name implies, delivering traditional heavy metal with a horror-tinted sensibility that fits the Ozarks' gothic underbelly since their 2017 founding.
Denton, Texas's Trap Lord barrel through crossover thrash and hardcore with reckless abandon — fast, ugly, and deliberately obnoxious, thriving in the fertile DIY scene of Denton's college-town underground since 2017.
Trapjaw is a thrash/death metal band from Bielefeld, Germany, formed in 2014. They combine thrash metal's speed with death metal's crushing brutality.
Trapped in Purgatory is a thrash metal band from Bristol, formed in 2020. Their music channels the relentless aggression and speed of thrash metal, contributing to Bristol's diverse and thriving heavy music scene.
Trarko from the Landes commune of Parentis-en-Born deliver technical thrash metal from the pine forests of southwestern France since 2013. Over a decade of technically demanding compositions from this small Gascon lakeside town has produced precision-engineered thrash.
Trascëndental is a thrash metal band from Palencia, Spain, formed in 2022. They play aggressive thrash metal from the Castilian north.
Lakeland, Florida's Trash have been delivering blunt, no-frills thrash metal since 2015, keeping the genre's raw and aggressive roots alive in a state better known for its death metal exports.
Newly formed in 2025, Atlanta's Trash Compactor bring a death/thrash hybrid that reflects the Georgia city's long tradition of extreme metal, applying modern brutality to the genre's classic bone-crushing template.
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