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A Past Embrace (2022)
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Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Providence, Rhode Island's Thy Will Be Done have been at the groove metal and metalcore crossroads since 2013, building songs around thick, mid-tempo riffs and the rhythmic swagger that puts groove at the center of their attack. Providence has a fierce independent music tradition, and the band's decade-plus tenure there reflects a commitment to heavy music in a city that takes its underground seriously.
A Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania black metal act formed in 2024, Thy Woe arrive from a city with a long and respected extreme metal history, contributing to a tradition of cold, uncompromising underground music that Pittsburgh has quietly sustained for decades. Young but deliberate, they channel the genre's misanthropic atmosphere with the bluntness implied by their name.
Crystal Lake, Illinois's Thyateira have been weaving melodic death metal's dual-guitar harmony and emotional intensity together with metalcore's structural urgency since 2011, building a sound that carries traces of both the Gothenburg scene and the American metalcore movement. Their longevity in a Chicago suburb rather than the city proper gives the band a certain scrappy, scene-independent character.
ThyGoat from Würzburg deliver melodic death metal with the caprine occult imagery their name suggests since 2022. Their Franconian base in the baroque wine capital provides an unlikely setting for their melodically sophisticated extreme metal.
ThyLord from Marseille deliver black metal with the devotional intensity their divine-master name demands since 2020. Their Mediterranean port-city base provides an unlikely setting for the cold, hostile extremity they channel.
Thyone from Nuremberg craft melodic death metal named after a mythological figure — the mortal mother of Dionysus — bringing Classical Greek themes to Franconian extremity since 2019. Their sound balances aggressive death metal foundations with melodic sophistication from Bavaria's second city.
Thyrant from Málaga blend melodic death metal with groove metal's rhythmic punch, creating a sun-drenched yet aggressive hybrid from the Costa del Sol since 2017. Their tyrannical name drives compositions that balance Mediterranean melody with crushing groove from Andalusia.
Thyrathen from Larissa craft black metal under a name evoking ancient Greek ritual since 2021. Their Thessalian plain base channels the pre-classical heritage of central Greece through atmospheric extremity.
A Baltimore, Maryland sludge metal band formed in 2024, Thyre wades into the slow-burning, feedback-drenched territory the genre demands, operating in a city with a deeply rooted tradition of heavy, abrasive underground music. Still newly formed, they bring the oppressive weight and abrasive textures of sludge to Baltimore's already formidable extreme music landscape.
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