Twice Sliced Bread is a California-based power metal band formed in 2022, delivering melodic, anthemic metal with a tongue-in-cheek name that belies a earnest approach to the genre's soaring guitars and bombastic song structures.

Twichard is a stoner metal outfit from Madison, Wisconsin, formed in 2016, grinding out fuzz-drenched, groove-heavy riffs rooted in the psychedelic and slow-burning traditions of the genre.

Twilight Falls is a raw black metal and ambient project active since 2005, rooted in the Pacific Northwest and dedicated to lo-fi, primitive black metal recordings layered with cold atmospheric textures.

Twilight Fauna is a one-man atmospheric black metal project from Johnson City, Tennessee, formed in 2013, weaving Appalachian folk sensibilities into sparse, nature-saturated black metal that evokes the bleakness of the rural American South.

Twilight Symphony is an El Paso, Texas symphonic progressive metal band formed in 2021, blending orchestral arrangements with intricate progressive metal composition in a city that sits at the crossroads of the American Southwest and northern Mexico.

Twin Lords is a grindcore and sludge metal band from Ithaca, New York, formed in 2012, merging the short, brutal blasts of grindcore with the thick, lurching weight of sludge metal into a punishing hybrid sound.

Twin Mammoth is a sludge metal band from Rockford, Illinois, formed in 2023, channeling the heavy, distortion-saturated sound of the Midwest underground into slow, crushing riff-driven compositions.

Twin Scar is a black/doom metal band from Cincinnati, Ohio, formed in 2025, combining the icy malevolence of black metal with the glacial, despairing tempos of doom metal into a dark and suffocating sound.

Twin Tribes are a Brownsville, Texas darkwave duo formed by Luis Navarro and Joel Nino Jr., and their music draws a clear line from 1980s gothic rock and synth-driven post-punk to a modern DIY scene. Shadows introduced the core palette: deep vocals, drum-machine pulse, chorus-drenched guitar, melodic bass, and synthesizers that create a nocturnal, romantic chill. Ceremony, Altars, and Pendulum expanded the mood with stronger dance-floor drive, Spanish-language touches, and a more confident sense of gothic atmosphere. Songs such as "Fantasmas," "Shadows," "Heart and Feather," and "Monolith" show why the duo reached far beyond regional Texas circles: the writing is minimal enough for clubs, but the melodies are memorable and emotionally direct. Twin Tribes are not metal, yet they belong in the accepted post-punk and goth-rock scope, especially for a directory that recognizes heavy music's adjacent scenes. Their darkness comes through restraint rather than volume, with repetition, reverb, and bass movement doing the work that distortion would do in a heavier band, especially live.