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Formed in 2014 in Innsbruck, Transilvania play black/thrash metal with a distinctly vampiric and occult atmosphere that incorporates first-wave black metal influences alongside the thrash template — citing Root and Tormentor as touchstones. Signed to Invictus Productions, their extensive catalog includes albums such as "Of Sleep and Death," "Morbid Majesty," and the 2026 release "Magia Posthuma," establishing them as one of the most prolific acts in the Austrian extreme underground.
Translunaria from Přerov fuse death metal's brutality with progressive metal's structural ambition, creating technically demanding compositions that shift between aggression and atmospheric passages since 2015. Their name evokes the cosmic and otherworldly themes that inform their progressive approach to extreme metal.
Transnational Dying Phallus from Pantin in the Paris suburbs have been delivering death metal and grindcore under one of extreme music's most provocative band names since 2001. Over two decades of boundary-pushing compositions from the Seine-Saint-Denis banlieue have established them as gloriously confrontational fixtures of the French grind underground.
Transnavia is a heavy metal band from Aarhus, Denmark, formed in 2020. They play traditional heavy metal from Denmark's second city.
Transneptunian is an atmospheric black metal band from Seville, Spain, formed in 2012. Named after objects beyond Neptune's orbit, they craft cosmic atmospheric black metal.
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Transparent Lust is a death/doom metal band from Macerata/Urbania in the Marche region, formed in 2023. Their evocative name channels desire through the dark filter of death and doom metal.
Thrash/crossover band from Brasília, Distrito Federal, formed in 2018 and operating independently. The band debuted with the EP Hazardous Aggression in December 2018, followed by the full-length Conservative Bastard in August 2020, and contributed tracks to the 4-way split Thrash Express alongside Imminent Attack, D.F.C., and HCG, released on August 27, 2021 through Tales from the Chaos Records.
Springfield, Missouri's Transylvania lean into the Gothic mythology their name implies, delivering traditional heavy metal with a horror-tinted sensibility that fits the Ozarks' gothic underbelly since their 2017 founding.
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