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Tsargoyle is a black/death metal act from Suffolk, England, formed in 2022. They blend the ferocity of death metal with the atmospheric menace of black metal in the British extreme underground.
Florida black metal band formed in 2025, taking their name from H.P. Lovecraft's cosmic mythology and channeling that sense of ancient, unknowable dread into their early material.
Death metal band from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, formed in 2023, named after the infamous Kenyan man-eater lions and executing predatory, relentless death metal in the American underground tradition.
Groove metal band from Pratt, Kansas, formed in 2023, bringing a heavy, rhythmically driven approach to metal rooted in the stomping mid-tempo riffs central to the groove metal tradition.
Portland, Oregon psychedelic doom/sludge metal band active since 2012, layering crushing low-end weight with hazy, hallucinatory atmospheres in the Pacific Northwest tradition of slow and heavy music.
Tserriednich from Hamburg deliver brutal death metal named after the menacing villain from the manga Hunter x Hunter, formed in 2025. Their anime-inspired moniker belies the crushing, gore-soaked brutality they channel from Germany's northern port.
Tsjuder formed in Oslo, Norway in 1993 and developed a raw, high-velocity approach to black metal informed by the second-wave Norwegian scene's most aggressive tendencies. Their debut Kill for Satan (2000) and third album Desert Northern Hell (2004), released on Season of Mist, are regarded as high points of orthodox Norwegian black metal from that decade. After a split from 2006 to 2011, the band reunited and released three further albums, most recently Helvegr in 2023.
Tsond from Normandy craft black metal from the historic region of Viking settlement since 2009. Over fifteen years of atmospheric extremity from the same land the Norsemen once conquered has produced compositions steeped in the region's dark heritage.
California atmospheric black metal project formed in 2025, building vast, expansive soundscapes from cold tremolo-picked guitar and sweeping ambience in the genre's most meditative tradition.
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