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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Thy Flesh Consumed from Norwich deliver slam, brutal death metal, and deathcore named after the Doom expansion episode since 2014. A decade of flesh-devouring compositions from the Norfolk capital channels first-person-shooter brutality.
Blackened progressive technical death metal band from Bern, Switzerland, combining face-melting riffs with haunting melodies and mechanical precision. Their releases Seroconversion, Blazing Radiance, and Deprive of Vision showcase a fusion of extremity and progressive complexity.
Rochester, New York's Thy Hideous Bake emerged in 2025 as a brutal death and slam act, channeling the goregrind and slam underground's fixation on grotesque heaviness and low, gutted riffing. A new entry into a genre that prizes extremity above all else, they arrive from a city with a long history of underground metal.
Thy Idle Hands is a death metal band from Lohja, Finland, formed in 2023. They deliver aggressive death metal from the southwestern Finnish underground.
A Houston, Texas black metal band formed in 2020, Thy Kingdom Burn operates within the city's surprisingly active extreme underground, channeling the raw, anti-religious hostility of the genre with a Texas-sized bluntness. Their name signals a contempt for sacred institutions that sits comfortably alongside Houston's broader tradition of uncompromising extreme music.
Lubbock, Texas death metal outfit Thy Kingdom Denied have been active since 2017, carrying the torch for brutality in a West Texas city more associated with country music than extreme metal. Their isolation from the major Texas metal centers of Dallas and Houston seems to have sharpened rather than softened their approach.
Formed in Austin, Texas in 2022, Thy Kingdom Scum sit at the rowdy crossroads of heavy metal, thrash, and punk, channeling a street-level aggression that owes as much to the DIY punk circuit as to the metal tradition. Metal Archives notes their punk influence explicitly, and the name itself reads like a statement of contempt for the powerful made with raised fists and distorted guitars.
A Citrus Heights, California raw black metal project that surfaced in 2025, Thy Lamentum embraces the stripped-down, buzzing ferocity of the raw black metal underground, building music that prioritizes atmosphere and misery over technical display. Brand new to the scene, they arrive from a Sacramento suburb with the urgency and bleak focus the subgenre demands.
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