Trewua is a sludge and groove metal band from Santiago, Chile, founded in 2019. They released their Demo I that same year, recorded at Estudio Ultrasonico with engineer Arturo Contreras.

Los Angeles-based Trey Xavier is a solo heavy metal project dating back to 2016, encompassing a wide stylistic range under the metal umbrella — fitting for a city where genre lines are often treated as suggestions. The project has the character of a personal document more than a band proper.

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.

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.

Bellingham, Washington progressive metal act Triacs formed in 2020, sitting at the crossover between prog-rock complexity and metal heaviness that characterizes the Pacific Northwest's more cerebral heavy bands. Their Bandcamp presence positions them firmly in the DIY end of the prog-metal spectrum.

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.