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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Providence, Rhode Island black/thrash act formed in 2019, fusing occult black metal menace with the speed and directness of thrash from a city that has long nurtured dark and extreme underground music, adding a witchcraft-inflected edge to their sound.
Thrasshole is a thrash metal band from Ingolstadt, Germany, formed in 2016. They play irreverent, aggressive thrash metal from the Bavarian underground.
Thrauwin are a heavy metal band from Bastogne in the Belgian Ardennes, with their Bandcamp page operating under the handle 'thrain.' The band is part of the small but active metal scene in the Luxembourg province of Wallonia, playing traditional heavy metal rooted in the classic European tradition.
Houston, Texas heavy/thrash act formed in 2014, operating in a city with one of the most productive metal undergrounds in the American South and drawing on both traditional heavy metal's melodic sensibility and thrash's rhythmic force.
Thraz from Thessaloniki deliver heavy and thrash metal from Greece's northern capital since 2019. Their abbreviated, punchy name drives compositions of compact, riff-heavy aggression.
Threadfin from Copenhagen deliver heavy and southern metal with the sleek, predatory movement of their fish-namesake since 2014. Their approach channels the sun-baked swagger of American southern metal through the unlikely filter of Nordic sensibility.
Symphonic metal outfit formed in the United States in 2018, working in the orchestrally layered tradition of the genre — sweeping arrangements, operatic vocal ambition, and the attempt to find grandeur within metal's heavy foundation.
Detroit, Michigan heavy metal act with roots stretching back to 1983, representing the long continuity of traditional heavy metal in a city whose industrial backdrop has always given that music extra weight and conviction.
Salt Lake City, Utah heavy metal and hard rock outfit also dating to 1983, part of a generation of American bands who absorbed the influence of British heavy metal and recast it through their own regional sensibility in the early years of the domestic scene.
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