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Springfield, Ohio's This Blessed Hatred fuse the mid-tempo chug of groove metal with the high-tension dynamics of metalcore, producing a sound built for impact on both the stage and the pit.
This Broken Machine from Milan blend progressive metal and metalcore with alternative rock influences since 2012. Over a decade of malfunctioning-machine compositions from the Lombardy capital.
A Seattle metalcore band carrying the Pacific Northwest's history of heavy music, This Dying Hour have been grinding since 2006 with a style that balances melodic tension against hardcore-derived aggression.
Buffalo, New York's This Eternal Cold occupy the brutal overlap between black metal's corrosive atmosphere and deathcore's bone-crushing breakdowns, a combination as bleak as the city's winters.
THIS GIFT IS A CURSE formed in Stockholm, Sweden in 2008, founded by vocalist Jonas A. Holmberg and drummer Johan Nordlund, with their debut EP recorded at the legendary Sunlight Studios with producer Tomas Skogsberg in 2010. The band works in a cataclysmic fusion of black metal, sludge, and hardcore, constructing songs that balance ferocity with a suffocating, doom-laden atmosphere. Full-lengths I, Guilt Bearer (2012), All Hail the Swinelord (2015), A Throne of Ash (2019), and Heir (2025, released on Season of Mist) have steadily built their standing in the European extreme underground.
A very new arrival from Greenville, South Carolina, This Hidden Colossus formed in 2025 and specialize in sludge metal — grinding through low-tuned riffs and oppressive tempos in the tradition of the American South's heaviest underground.
This I Owe is a progressive heavy/doom metal/hard rock band from Athens, formed in 2023. Their music blends progressive complexity with the weight of doom and the accessibility of hard rock.
This Illusion from Padua deliver death metal that shatters false perceptions since 2004. Over two decades of deception-destroying compositions from the Veneto university city.
New York crossover veterans This Is Hell have been tearing through the divide between hardcore and thrash since 2004, delivering fast, punishing sets that owe as much to the NYHC tradition as to Bay Area thrash.
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