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Operating from Boonsboro, Maryland since 2016, Thonian Horde practice a traditional-leaning black metal that draws on the mythological and esoteric currents flowing through the American underground.
Portland, Oregon's Thonis have been delivering direct, unembellished death metal since 2016 — the city's fertile underground providing a home for a band more interested in brutality than scene politics.
Thor from Donostia-San Sebastián in the Basque Country deliver heavy and power metal under the thunder god's banner since 2014. Their Norse deity name channels divine power through compositions that ring with the hammer-strike intensity of traditional European metal.
Thor was a pioneering heavy metal band from Buenos Aires, Argentina, active in the early-to-mid 1980s. The band featured vocalist Horacio Cornejo, guitarists Carlos "Tarkus" Albanesi and Marcelo Langeneker, bassist Mabel Diaz, and drummer Charlie Álvarez, making them the first Argentine metal band to include a female member. Their sole studio album "El Pacto" was released in 1985 and sold 5,000 copies; a CD reissue appeared in 2014 via Hurling Metal Records.
Formed in Hoogstraten, Antwerp as Poweraid in 1983 before renaming to Thorax in 1985, this Belgian heavy metal band were active during the mid-80s boom in Belgian metal and operated as an unsigned independent act. They have since split up, leaving behind a slice of Antwerp heavy metal history from the era.
A death metal act from Tampa, Florida formed in 2024, Thorax of a Mastermind take their cues from a city with one of death metal's most legendary pedigrees, carrying on the tradition of surgical riffs and guttural extremity.
Thore is a black/Viking metal band from Bavaria, Germany, formed in 2015. They fuse Norse-themed Viking metal with black metal's cold aggression.
Sterling Heights, Michigan's Thoren have been refining their progressive death metal approach since 2014, pairing intricate compositional structures with genuine heaviness in a style that rewards close listening.
Thoreous is a drone/doom metal band from the Freiburg/Stuttgart corridor of Germany, formed in 2013. They craft glacially paced, hypnotic drone doom that pushes heaviness to its extremes.
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