These Are They is a Chicago death metal band that has been pushing through the city's heavy underground since 2014, delivering straight-ahead brutality with roots in classic American death metal. Their Bandcamp presence reflects a DIY ethos consistent with Chicago's fiercely independent metal scene.

These Cursed Hands emerged from Portland, Oregon in 2023 at the intersection of melodic death metal and metalcore, blending hook-driven songwriting with aggressive, technically precise riffing. Their approach leans into the melodic side of both genres, aiming for emotional impact alongside the brutality.

These Machines hail from Binghamton, New York, combining technical death metal's precision with grindcore's blunt ferocity since 2011. The band's mechanically exacting riffwork and relentless pace place them firmly in the abrasive upper tier of upstate New York extreme metal.

Thewayitwas is a Tulsa, Oklahoma death metal act that emerged in 2022, bringing a blunt, grinding approach to the genre with a name that suggests retrospective fury rather than nostalgia. Operating out of Oklahoma's relatively sparse extreme metal scene, they carve out a distinctly uncompromising space.

Thicc is a Los Angeles death metal act formed in 2026, bringing a confrontational name and presumably equally confrontational riffing to the crowded Southern California extreme metal scene. As one of the newest bands in the LA underground, they are just beginning to carve out their identity.

Thicker than Blood come out of Detroit, Michigan with a ferocious hybrid of death metal, grindcore, and hardcore that has been tearing through the city's heavy underground since 2012. Their Motor City roots infuse their blunt, industrial-strength brutality with a gritty working-class intensity.

Formed in 2012 in Lake View, South Carolina, Thirst for Clarity pull from death metal brutality, groove-driven heaviness, and the melodic ambitions of progressive metalcore, building dense, layered songs that resist easy genre labels.

Thirsting Ampoule emerged in 2025 as a raw black/death metal project, trading in corrosive production and savage extremity that keeps both genres at their most uncompromising.

Greensboro, North Carolina's Thirteenth Witness blend the aggression of death metal with black metal's icy atmosphere and thrash metal's relentless momentum, forming a caustic and multi-pronged attack launched from the Carolina underground.