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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Tharn is a thrash metal band from Marburg, Germany, formed in 2020. They deliver aggressive, riff-driven thrash metal.
Tharnhul is a melodic black metal band from Nueva Braunau, in the Los Lagos region of southern Chile. Their 2025 debut album Forest That Devours The Light draws on the stories of indigenous peoples and pre-colonial deities of the Chilean south, with lyrics exploring the destruction wrought by colonialism and its cross.
Tharnhul is a melodic black metal band from Nueva Braunau, in the Los Lagos region of southern Chile. Their 2025 debut album Forest That Devours The Light draws on the stories of indigenous peoples and pre-colonial deities of the Chilean south, with lyrics exploring the destruction wrought by colonialism and its cross.
Antwerp instrumental doom/stoner metal band Tharsis released their self-titled debut in July 2025, drawing praise for its combination of fuzz-heavy riffing, psychedelic space-rock passages, and unexpected shifts into drone and amplifier feedback. The record cites clear kinship with Bongzilla, Church of Misery, and Weedeater while incorporating narrative-driven samples that give the album a darkly cinematic quality.
Tharsys is a gothic metal band from Arnsberg, Germany, formed in 2020. They play atmospheric gothic metal with dark romantic themes.
Thasaidon from France deliver death and doom metal named after Clark Ashton Smith's fictional dark god since 2021. Their weird fiction reference drives compositions of archaic, cosmic doom steeped in pulp-era horror literature.
That Was Yesterday from Italy craft gothic metal and rock that looks backward with nostalgic melancholy since 2011. Over a decade of retrospective compositions explores the weight of past time.
Thaurgûl from Italy craft technical black metal under a Tolkien-derived name since 2019. Their compositions channel Middle-earth darkness through technically demanding extremity.
THC 666 is a brutal death metal band from Tunja, Boyacá, Colombia, formed in 2010 by bassist/vocalist Andrés Otero, guitarist/vocalist Joseph Vega, and drummer Gerardo Parra. The band released their debut full-length "Colossal Incubation" in 2022 after a series of demos and split releases.
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