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Bestial war metal from West Texas. Demo released through Nuclear War Now! Productions, debut full-length on Transcending Obscurity Records.
World War Metal from Austin featuring members of Imprecation and Morbosidad. Debut full-length Commandoccult released 2022 on Godz Ov War Productions.
Austin's Trenchant deal in blackened death metal of the uncompromising variety — dense, caustic, and unrelenting since their 2018 formation. Their approach fuses the atmospherics of raw black metal with the brute physicality of death metal, making them a notable presence on the Texas extreme underground scene.

Detroit's Trespass arrived in 2022 with a violent conflation of black metal, death metal, and grindcore — the kind of short, caustic eruptions that prioritize kinetic damage over nuance. In a city with deep roots in extreme music, they fit naturally into a lineage of no-mercy heaviness.
Scorching Atmospheric Black Metal / Ambient from Texas (early); Baltimore, Maryland (later).

Baltimore atmospheric black metal and ambient project Trhä emerged in 2020 as a deeply solitary exercise in icy, cavernous sound — the kind of music that feels less performed than summoned. With no fixed state listing and a minimal footprint, Trhä cultivates an air of deliberate obscurity that suits the bleakness of the style.

Austin black metal act Triacanthos formed in 2019, operating within a Texas scene that has quietly built a reputation for serious, unadorned extreme metal. Their name — shared with a thorned plant genus — suggests a project drawn to the jagged and unyielding, consistent with the raw aesthetic of the style.

Triangulations is an avant-garde black/death metal project from Midland, Michigan, formed in 2018, pushing extreme metal into unconventional compositional territory with dissonant, boundary-defying arrangements.

Triangulum is a black metal band from Cleveland, Ohio, formed in 2017, drawing on the raw and atmospheric strains of the genre to produce cold, abrasive sonic landscapes.

Tribulation is a black/death metal band from North Carolina, formed in 2013, operating in the aggressive extreme metal underground with a sound rooted in the raw energy of both genres.

Tricephalic Goat Witch is a doom/black metal band from Oak Lawn, Illinois, formed in 2024, blending slow, oppressive doom with the occult darkness of black metal.

Trilithon is a black metal band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2006, crafting raw and atmospheric black metal that reflects the Pacific Northwest's long-standing tradition of dark, nature-influenced extreme music.

Triskelion is a heavy metal and hard rock band from Phoenix, Arizona, formed in 2012, rooted in classic heavy metal songcraft with an emphasis on melody and traditional song structure.

Tristhet is a Detroit band formed in 2014 that fuses atmospheric black metal with folk elements, incorporating melodic passages and earthy textures into an otherwise grim and wintry sound.

Tristitia Nigrum is a black metal band from Middletown, New Jersey, formed in 2018, pursuing a cold and austere approach to the genre with a name meaning 'black sorrow' in Latin.
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