Brooklyn's Trenchgrinder have been a fixture in the New York underground since 2011, channeling death metal brutality, thrash velocity, and crust punk filth into a sound built for the pit. Their approach is confrontational and unpolished in the best tradition of the borough's extreme metal lineage.

Columbus, Georgia's Trendkill formed in 2020 with a sound anchored in the crossover space between death and thrash metal, drawing equally from the surgical precision of technical death and the kinetic aggression of thrash. Their name nods to an era of metal that prized authenticity over trend-chasing.

Philadelphia brutal death metal act Trephination have been operating since 2019, bringing the city's storied extreme metal heritage into the realm of blast-beat intensity and guttural excess. Their Bandcamp presence reflects a band focused on craft rather than visibility, letting the music do the talking.

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.

Yonkers, New York death/thrash outfit Trez Muertoz formed in 2025, bringing a fresh entry to the brutal overlap between the two styles with a name that wears its grimy aesthetics on its sleeve. As one of the newer acts in the New York extreme metal underground, they carry the confrontational energy the city's scene demands.

Dallas death/grind act Triage have been trading in punishing, medically-themed aggression since 2020 — their Bandcamp handle "triage666" making plain the irreverent extremity of the project. They represent the Texas scene's appetite for short, brutally efficient metal that wastes nothing and forgives nothing.

Trial by Combat is a death/thrash metal band from Santa Rosa, California, formed in 2013, delivering punishing riffs and aggressive tempos rooted in the Bay Area's extreme metal tradition.

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.

Cavernous death metal with members of Mammoth Grinder.