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Los Angeles thrash unit Toxin formed in 2016 and draw on the city's deep well of speed-driven metal aggression, delivering tightly wound riffs and high-velocity drumming in the tradition of their West Coast predecessors.
Toxocracia is a melodic post-black/death metal band from Unión de Tula, Jalisco, formed in 2010. Their music explores emotional states through poetic storytelling, blending melodic black metal textures with death metal aggression. The band released the full-length album Eterna in 2016 and followed it with Septentrional in 2025.
Toxpack formed in Berlin, Germany in 2001 under frontman Daniel "Schulle" Schulz, who coined the term "Streetcore" to describe the band's fusion of punk, hardcore, and heavy metal drawn from street-level working-class culture. The band's prolific output on Napalm Records spans nine albums from their debut Stadtgeflüster (2001) through Kämpfer (2019) and the 20th anniversary compilation Zwanzig.Tausend Volt (2022). NPR cited them as setting the standard for the Streetcore style, and their consistency over two decades has made them a defining act within the German punk-metal underground.
Traboute is a progressive death metal band from Carballo, Spain, active since 2007. They craft technically ambitious progressive death metal from the Galician coast.
Los Angeles thrash outfit Tracer have kept a low profile since forming in 2006, operating within the city's deep underground scene with a straight-ahead approach to speed and aggression.
Chicago's Tracer X emerged in 2017 with a focus on heavy and power metal, bringing soaring vocal lines and twin-guitar arrangements to the Midwest's enduring metal scene.
Tracerfire from Dresden forge heavy metal with the rapid, illuminating intensity of their military-referencing name, formed in 2026 as one of Saxony's newest metal acts. Their sound promises the bright, streaking energy of tracer rounds cutting through darkness.
Traces is a symphonic black metal band from Reading, formed in 2018. Their music layers orchestral grandeur over the raw intensity of black metal, creating atmospheric and dramatic compositions.
Trachea is a sludge/doom metal band from Jõhvi, Estonia, formed in 2014. They deliver crushing sludge and doom from the northeastern Estonian industrial region.
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