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Throne of Want from Paris deliver black metal named after the climactic location from Dark Souls II, channeling the video game's themes of hollow desire through atmospheric compositions since 2019. Their gaming reference drives a sound of desperate, unfulfilled longing from the French capital.
Laredo, Texas border city black metal act Throne ov Blood have been operating since 2007, embodying the raw and sinister aesthetic that the 'ov' in their name signals — deliberately lo-fi, occult-tinged, and indifferent to polish. Their longevity in one of Texas's most isolated music scenes speaks to a genuine dedication to the black metal underground.
Salem, Oregon's Thrones is essentially a solo project that has operated since 1996 under the creative direction of one of the American underground's most idiosyncratic figures, building an enormous bass-driven drone and doom sound that is utterly its own thing. Slow, cavernous, and hypnotic, Thrones occupies a unique corner of the heavy music spectrum where doom, noise, and experimental music collapse into a single suffocating mass.
Thrones of Blood is a death metal band from Mexico City, Mexico, active since 2018 and formerly operating as Oedium from 2015 to 2018. They released their debut full-length Ages of Misanthropy in 2023, exploring themes of misanthropy and cosmic horror.
Out of Fulton, Missouri, Thrones of the Tyrant have been crafting melodic death metal since 2012, bringing Scandinavian-influenced melody and harmonic guitar work to a small Midwestern city with no natural metal infrastructure to speak of. Their persistence in building a sound more commonly associated with European scenes is a testament to the reach of melodeath's influence across American underground metal.
Birmingham, Alabama's Throng of Shoggoths take their Lovecraftian name seriously, conjuring thick, malevolent death-doom and sludge from the deep South since 2015. They merge the oppressive low-end rumble of sludge with death metal's abrasive attack, fitting naturally into Birmingham's storied tradition of heavy, regionally-specific extreme music.
Tielt-based black metal band Thronum Vrondor formed in 2005 around the core of guitarist/bassist Vrondor and drummer Crygh, releasing their debut Vrondor I: Epitaph of Mass-Destruction on Goatowarex in 2006. Four albums followed — including Vrondor II: Conducting the Orchestra of Evil on Total Holocaust Records and Dies Tenebrosa Sicut Nox on Immortal Frost Productions — with the addition of vocalist SvN in 2015 broadening their dynamic range while preserving their commitment to raw, intelligent old-school black metal.
Throrne from Brighton craft black metal under a deliberately misspelled name that suggests both throne and thorn since 2020. Their Sussex seaside base provides an unlikely setting for their hostile, atmospheric compositions.
Derby, Kansas one-piece Throsk works deep in raw black metal and ambient territory since 2016, stripping the sound back to primitive aggression and abrasive texture with no concern for production sheen. The project fuses the nihilistic spirit of raw black metal with stretches of cold, isolationist ambient — a fitting approach for the flat, windswept Kansas plains.
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