Tuk Smith and the Restless Hearts are a Nashville rock band led by former Biters frontman Tuk Smith, carrying forward a tradition of glam-tinted hard rock, power pop hooks, and streetwise guitar songwriting. Formed after Smith's earlier band ended, the Restless Hearts gave him a vehicle for songs that balance big choruses, cheap-motel romance, broken-hearted bravado, and a stubborn faith in rock and roll craft. Their music draws from Cheap Trick, Thin Lizzy, Hanoi Rocks, the Replacements, and 1970s radio rock, but it is not just a retro pose. Smith writes with a survivor's edge, turning addiction, regret, ambition, and self-sabotage into songs that can still sound bright and immediate. Records and releases around Ballad of a Misspent Youth and Rogue to Redemption show a writer who understands how melody can make damage feel communal rather than private. The band fits best where glam, punk, and hard rock overlap: loud enough for guitar crowds, tuneful enough for power pop listeners, and rough enough to avoid polish becoming the point. Tuk Smith and the Restless Hearts matter because they treat rock songwriting as a lived vocation, not a fashion cycle, and their best songs sound hungry in a way that feels earned.

Virginia black metal project formed in 2016, named after the psychological concept of a thought-form or mental construct, channeling that theme of manifested inner darkness into austere, underground black metal.

Death metal band based in Fairfax County, Virginia, formed in 2017, operating in the rotted, cavernous register of old-school death metal with a name — Spanish for "decayed tomb" — that telegraphs their thematic and sonic intentions.

Tacoma, Washington drone/doom/post-metal duo active since 2014, sculpting monolithic, slowly evolving soundscapes from feedback and repetition in the tradition of the Pacific Northwest's most extreme slow music.

Punishing Death Metal / Deathcore out of Texas.

San Diego, California death/doom metal band formed in 2023, merging the sepulchral atmosphere and mournful pacing of doom with the brutality of death metal in the style of the genre's earliest practitioners.

American black metal project formed in 2019 with no listed city affiliation, operating anonymously in the raw underground tradition and delivering the chaos and nihilism the name promises.

Tundra is a death metal and deathcore act from Topeka, Kansas, formed in 1997, blending the crushing heaviness of deathcore breakdowns with the more technical sensibilities of death metal.

Tung is a sludge metal band from Ventura, California, formed in 2019, delivering slow-grinding heaviness rooted in the coastally-tinged Southern California underground scene.