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Thagirion from Paris craft black and death metal under a name from the Qliphothic tradition — the dark mirror of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life — since 2021. Their occult Hebraic reference drives compositions of esoteric extremity from the French capital.
Thakandar is a black/death metal band from Osnabrück, Germany, active since 2009. They combine the darkness of black metal with death metal's crushing aggression.
Thales is a progressive/power metal band from Dillingen, Germany, formed in 2016. They blend progressive complexity with power metal's anthemic energy.
Power/progressive metal band from São Paulo, formed in 2001 around vocalist Alexandra Liambos, guitarists Rodrigo Vinhas and Fabio Toledo, bassist David Shalom, and drummer Gian Scairato. Their sole album, Another Sun, was released in May 2004 on Hellion Records and recorded at Creative Sound Studios in São Paulo; it features ex-Helloween vocalist Michael Kiske as a guest on the duet "The Encounter" alongside Fabio Laguna of Angra and Fabio Ribeiro of Shaaman.
Thallium is a melodic death metal band from Oldenburg, Germany, formed in 2015. They play melodic death metal with Scandinavian-influenced guitar harmonies.
Thamand is a melodic death/black metal band from Szeged, Hungary, formed in 2019. They weave together melodic death metal harmonies with black metal intensity and atmospheric depth.
Thamuz is a melodic doom metal band from Kangasniemi, Finland, formed in 2020. They deliver sorrowful, melodic doom from the rural Finnish heartland.
Thamuzifer is a melodic black/death metal band from Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, formed in 2005. Their debut full-length, Oscura Sociedad Sacrílega, was released in 2012, with themes centered on Satanism, darkness, and war.
Thanallian from Prague blend melodic gothic and folk metal within a richly imagined fictional world where nature, love, and cruelty intersect, with releases like "Between Worlds" and "The Last Arduans" building out their narrative universe. Founded in 2014, the band craft cinematic, story-driven compositions that bridge folk melodies with gothic metal darkness.
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