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Take the Pain is a melodic death/thrash metal band from London, formed in 2020. Their music fuses the melodic sensibilities of Scandinavian death metal with the speed and aggression of thrash, bringing a polished yet punishing sound to the UK capital's metal scene.
Take the Trash Out from Görlitz on the German-Polish border blend thrash metal, death metal, and metalcore into an aggressive hybrid since 2013. Their location at the easternmost edge of Germany infuses their sound with a cross-border energy drawn from both German and Polish metal traditions.
Taken is a power metal band from Pamplona, Spain, formed in 2015. They deliver anthemic power metal from the Navarrese capital.
Taken by Wolves is an industrial black metal project from Nottingham, formed in 2020. Their music merges the cold aggression of black metal with the mechanical textures and electronic elements of industrial music, creating a bleak and mechanized sonic landscape.
Takezo is a sludge/doom metal band from Kuopio, Finland, formed in 2019. Named after the legendary samurai, they deliver crushing sludge and doom from eastern Finland.
Takida formed in Ånge, Sweden in 1999 and developed into one of the country's most commercially successful rock acts, scoring three consecutive platinum-selling, chart-topping Swedish albums with Bury the Lies (2007), The Darker Instinct (2009), and The Burning Heart (2011). Named after a mispronounced character from the Japanese anime Silver Fang, the band signed with Ninetone Records in 2005 and has released over a dozen albums, including the Swedish-language Sju (2019) and The Agony Flame (2024), which reached number 8 on the German charts.
Taking Back Sunday became a defining voice in the overlap between emo, post-hardcore, and pop punk by making conflict sound communal. Tell All Your Friends captured the band's volatile early chemistry: Adam Lazzara's wounded lead vocals, John Nolan's cutting counter-melodies, Eddie Reyes' driving guitar parts, Shaun Cooper's bass movement, and Mark O'Connell's urgent drumming all pushed against one another without losing the song. The result was a style built on overlapping voices, accusatory hooks, jagged rhythms, and lyrics that felt like arguments shouted from opposite sides of the same room. Where You Want to Be and Louder Now gave that approach a broader rock shape, producing songs with cleaner choruses but the same emotional friction. Later lineup changes and reunions shifted the band's tone, yet the core identity remained tied to tension, call-and-response vocals, and guitar-driven release. Taking Back Sunday endure because their best songs do not simply describe heartbreak or betrayal; they dramatize it in the arrangement. Every pause, shouted harmony, and sudden lift feels like another person entering the fight.
Minneapolis-based Taking the Head of Goliath have been delivering unrelenting brutal death metal since 2017, channeling the Twin Cities' deep underground tradition into grotesque, high-velocity brutality. Their approach is single-minded and surgical — blast beats, guttural vocals, and downtuned guitars assembled with the precision of a slaughterhouse floor.
Buffalo's Takken have been flying the flag for traditional heavy metal since 2013, drawing from the classic NWOBHM playbook without apology or irony. There's a directness to their craft — twin guitar leads, anthemic hooks, and the kind of chest-forward riffing that made metal matter in the first place.
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