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T.T. Quick formed in Osbornville, New Jersey in 1979 and spent years building a following in the New York/New Jersey club circuit before signing with Megaforce Records — alongside Metallica, Anthrax, and Overkill — in the early 1980s. Their breakthrough full-length Metal of Honor (1986) on Island Records, produced by Max Norman, cemented their reputation as a sharp heavy metal act, and vocalist Mark Tornillo later became the frontman of Accept in 2009. The band reunited in the 2000s and again in later years, releasing a new album of mid-1980s-era material in 2022.
T.V.P. is a grindcore band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 2018. Their music delivers rapid-fire blasts and abrasive intensity characteristic of the grindcore tradition, contributing to Belfast's small but fierce extreme music underground.
Taagefanger from the Djursland peninsula in eastern Jutland craft sludge metal as heavy and sodden as the Danish coastal landscape since 2022. Their Danish name and rural peninsula setting infuse their crushing sound with a distinctly maritime Nordic character.
Taak is a doom metal band from Tallinn, Estonia, formed in 2019. They deliver crushing doom metal from the Estonian capital.
Taake was founded in Bergen, Norway in 1993 by multi-instrumentalist Hoest under the name Thule, renamed Taake — the Norwegian word for 'fog' — in 1995 as a tribute to his hometown's coastal landscape. The band operates primarily as a one-man studio entity and released a celebrated trilogy of concept albums between 1999 and 2005 centered on death, Norway, and the devil, followed by Noregs vaapen (2011), which featured guest appearances from Attila Csihar, Nocturno Culto, and Demonaz. Taake's most recent album is Et Hav av Avstand (2023).
Taaken channel raw black metal from Germany, formed in 2021 and conjuring the cold, misanthropic atmosphere of the Scandinavian tradition through a German lens. Their stripped-down approach favors primal intensity over production polish.
Taakka is a black metal project from Finland, formed in 2020. Their name meaning "burden" in Finnish, they channel weighty, oppressive black metal.
Los Angeles outfit Taarkus emerged in 2016 at the crossroads of doom and progressive metal, threading heavy, slow-burning riffs through elaborate arrangements that reward patient listeners. Named after the ELP album, they carry that spirit of ambition into the doom underground — crushing low-end weight balanced against exploratory song structures that push well beyond standard genre constraints.
Formed in Frederick, Maryland in 2025, Taartaros arrive fully formed at the bleakest convergence of black, death, and doom metal — a suffocating trifecta that trades no one style for another. Their sound is early and uncompromising, built on cold dissonance and funeral-pace heaviness laced with the caustic edge of death metal aggression.
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