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Tenet was a Canadian thrash metal side project assembled in 1996 by Jed Simon of Strapping Young Lad around an exceptional cast of genre veterans, including guitarist Glen Alvelais (Forbidden), bassist Byron Stroud (Fear Factory), drummer Gene Hoglan (Death, Dark Angel), and vocalist Steve 'Zetro' Souza (Exodus). The project released a single album, Sovereign (2009), which combined Bay Area thrash aggression with death metal brutality before the members returned to their primary projects. Though short-lived, Tenet is notable for the caliber of its contributors.
Founded in Beijing in 2010 by Nature Ganganbaigal — an ethnic Mongolian multi-instrumentalist and composer — Tengger Cavalry wove traditional Central Asian elements including morin khuur, throat singing, and shamanistic themes into folk and black metal. After relocating to New York, the project expanded to a full band and performed a sold-out debut concert at Carnegie Hall in 2015, also contributing to the soundtracks of Civilization 6 and Doom Eternal. Nature Ganganbaigal was found dead at age 29 in June 2019, leaving behind eight studio albums and a singular legacy in folk metal.
Tengwar are a Tolkien-inspired epic folk metal band from Buenos Aires, Argentina, founded in 2003, who blend heavy metal with Celtic and medieval folk instrumentation including Galician bagpipes, fiddle, and hurdy-gurdy. They released the EP "Tengwesta Quendion" in 2008 and their debut full-length "The Halfling Forth Shall Stand..." in 2011, a 15-track concept album based on J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Fellowship of the Ring." Vocalist Thorvi and a rotating cast of folk instrumentalists have anchored the band's lineup across its releases.
Despite the Southern-outlaw swagger of their name, Tennessee Murder Club hail from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and have been delivering straight-ahead death metal since 2011. That geographic dissonance seems intentional — there's a contrarian streak in their sound, a band playing death metal on their own terms in a city where it doesn't come easy.
Tensile from Tamworth and Lichfield in the West Midlands deliver heavy metal with the stretched, steel-wire strength their metallurgical name demands since 2014. A decade of compositions from the Staffordshire heartland has channeled industrial resilience through classic metal.
Tension is a heavy metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2012. They play driving, riff-heavy traditional metal from the Saxonian underground.
Tension Head is a heavy metal band from Ballina, Ireland, formed in 2016. They deliver driving, hard-hitting heavy metal from the west of Ireland.
Founded in 2017 in Flemish Brabant under the name Tensor Tympani — a reference to the ear muscle that dampens harmful sounds — the band shortened their name to Tensor and released the 2018 demo The Collector followed by the EP The Suicide Connection. Their progressive death metal draws on the collective experience of members previously active in Herfst, Sanity's Rage, and The Dirty Harries, and their debut album The Suicide Connection marked a step forward in that melodic, technically-informed direction.
Tentachor from London craft doom metal whose compound name suggests grasping tentacles anchoring the listener in crushing heaviness since 2022. Their compositions wrap around the senses with the slow, inescapable grip of oceanic horror.
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