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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Linthicum Heights, Maryland's Tracer have been flying the flag for traditional heavy metal since 2006, drawing on the NWOBHM and American power metal traditions in a region with a tight-knit but dedicated metal underground.
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.
Trachoma is a thrash/death metal band from Novara in Piedmont, formed in 2019. Named after the infectious eye disease, their music delivers aggressive thrash and death metal from the Po Valley.
Goregrind band from São Paulo, formed in 2019, signed to Rectal Purulence Records. The trio — Rafaela Begore on drums and vocals, Thales Gory on guitars, and Simonstro on bass — released the split Born Headless with Italian gorenoise project Yakisoba in 2023, co-issued by Old Grindered Days Records and Grindfather Productions, with their tracks recorded at Sotão Estudio in Pirituba, São Paulo in April 2022.
Tractatus from Athens craft black metal under a name referencing Wittgenstein's foundational philosophical text since 2016. A decade of logically rigorous compositions from the birthplace of Western philosophy.
Nestled in the mountains of Franconia, New Hampshire, Tractorass have been hauling stoner doom's slow, bludgeoning weight since 2004, blending fuzz-soaked riffs with the lethargic, oppressive atmosphere the genre does best.
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