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From Prestonsburg, a small town in Eastern Kentucky's coal country, This Town Has Ghosts channel melodic death metal hooks and metalcore heft into music that feels rooted in both regional identity and broader extremity.
Connecticut's This White Mountain have been sculpting atmospheric black metal out of Mansfield since 2009, weaving sweeping, nature-inspired ambiance through tremolo-driven darkness in the tradition of the American atmospheric underground.
Thisclose from Glasgow and Edinburgh deliver hardcore punk blended with heavy and thrash metal since 2012. Over a decade spanning Scotland's two great cities has produced compositions that bridge punk's confrontational energy with metal's weight.
Thisharmony from Zaragoza craft progressive death metal with a name that plays on disharmony and harmony simultaneously, active since 2000 in the Aragonese capital. Over a quarter century, they have become one of Spain's longest-running progressive death metal acts.
Charlottesville, Virginia's ThisMeansYou bring an unusual combination of melodic death metal intensity and power metal's anthemic drive to their music, resulting in a sound that's technically demanding and emotionally broad.
Thlimmos is an avant-garde black metal project from Greece, formed in 2020. Their Greek name, meaning 'sorrow' or 'affliction,' permeates their experimental approach to black metal.
Phoenix, Arizona's Tho Ko Losi have been grinding since 2017, combining death metal's sonic density with grindcore's brutal economy of time — fast, violent, and uninterested in subtlety.
Thod from Paris craft blackened doom metal whose name evokes ancient, ominous weight since 2023. Their compositions merge black metal's atmospheric hostility with doom's crushing pace from the French capital.
With origins tracing to Tel Aviv in 2016 and listed under a US flag, Thokkian Vortex practice unadorned black metal that speaks a universal language of frost and malice regardless of geography.
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