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Featured Album
Irrational Pull (2020)
Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Tvsk is a stoner metal band from Alameda, California, formed in 2015, built on psychedelic-tinged heavy riffing anchored in the Bay Area's heavy underground scene.
Tvær is an atmospheric black metal project from Minneapolis, Minnesota, formed in 2017, crafting expansive and coldly textured soundscapes rooted in the USBM tradition of the upper Midwest.
Twat Waffle is a brutal death metal and goregrind band from New Jersey, formed in 2012, specializing in extreme sonic brutality with the over-the-top provocateur aesthetic typical of the genre.
Twelfth Gate is a Chicago, Illinois progressive thrash metal band formed in 2016, building on the city's long-running prog-thrash tradition with technically demanding arrangements and intricate song structures that recall the genre's 1990s peak.
Twelve Gauge is a power/thrash metal band from Saint Paul, Minnesota, formed in 2019, combining the anthemic, melody-driven energy of power metal with the aggressive riffing of thrash.
Twenty Third Chapter is a death metal and hardcore band from Bloomington, Indiana, formed in 1997, fusing metallic hardcore's directness with death metal's extremity over nearly three decades of underground activity.
Twenty Thousand Fathoms is a progressive metalcore band from Erie, Pennsylvania, formed in 2020, drawing its name from Jules Verne's ocean depths and crafting expansive, technically adventurous music that pushes the boundaries of metalcore.
Twenty Twelve is a death metal and grindcore band from Ontario, California, formed in 2001, delivering compact bursts of extreme aggression within the death-grind tradition of the Southern California underground.
Twice Sliced Bread is a California-based power metal band formed in 2022, delivering melodic, anthemic metal with a tongue-in-cheek name that belies a earnest approach to the genre's soaring guitars and bombastic song structures.
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