An Austin, Texas raw black metal act formed in 2022, Torture embraces lo-fi production and primitive aggression — deliberately corrosive and antagonistic in the tradition of underground USBM's most unpolished factions.

San Bernardino's Tower Guard, active since 2021, fuse the melodic sweep of Gothenburg-style death metal with the soaring choruses and compositional ambition of power metal, crafting a sound that is simultaneously aggressive and anthemic.

Portland, Maine's Toxic Cross, formed in 2018, blend the melodic sensibilities of Scandinavian death metal with thrash's riff-forward attack, producing a sound that bridges European melodic death and the rawer American thrash tradition.

Trigger Pig is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Hudson Falls, New York, formed in 2016, merging Gothenburg-influenced melodies with the heaviness and rhythmic aggression of modern metalcore.

Triton is a melodic death metal band from Roxbury, Massachusetts, formed in 2023, blending the hook-driven sensibility of melodic death metal with a direct, aggressive delivery.

Triune is a Boulder, Colorado band formed in 2006 that melds melodic death metal and metalcore, balancing melodic riffing and clean-toned passages against heavier, breakdown-driven aggression.

Trojan Swamp Monster is a melodic death metal band from St. Helens, Oregon, formed in 2019, crafting hook-laden death metal that matches melodic guitar leads to swampy, aggressive riffing.

Turais is a Chicago, Illinois melodic death-doom band formed in 2023, named after the star in the constellation Carina and weaving together mournful melodies with the crushing weight of death metal.

Turned to Stone is a melodic death metal band from Salt Lake City, Utah, formed in 2013, combining Scandinavian-influenced melodic riffing with the heaviness and aggression of classic death metal.

Tyraels Ascension is an Olympia, Washington band formed in 2024 that merges melodic death metal, groove metal, and metalcore, drawing on multiple extreme and modern metal subgenres to build a hybrid aggressive sound.

Tyranitar is a melodic death metal band from Rochester, New York, formed in 2013, blending the melodic sensibility of Scandinavian-influenced death metal with American heaviness.

Parker, Colorado's Ubiquitous have been weaving together progressive structures and melodic death metal savagery since 2015, threading technical ambition through every riff. Their approach to progressive melodic death metal rewards patient listeners with songs that shift and breathe rather than simply bludgeon.

East Hartford, Connecticut's Under a Serpent Sun draw on the Scandinavian melodic death metal playbook while grounding it in a heavy, American directness since their 2021 formation. The interplay between melody and brutality is their defining quality.

Fort Worth's Unraveler pull from melodic death metal's emotional sweep and groove metal's pummeling mid-tempo stomp, a combination that's become their signature since forming in 2012. They're one of the more textured acts in the DFW heavy music scene.

Los Angeles's Upon Stone have built their sound on the melodic death metal tradition since forming in 2021, bringing a gothic sensibility and emotional weight to a genre often dominated by pure aggression. Atmospheric and dark, they stand apart from the coastal city's more straightforward heavy acts.