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A Richmond, Virginia metalcore band since 2016, This Present Darkness channel the city's storied heavy music scene into dense, aggressive compositions built on thick riffs and high-contrast dynamic shifts.
Daytona Beach's This Solemn Vow have been sharpening their metalcore-meets-thrash attack since 2014, bringing a riff-forward intensity that leans into speed and groove in equal measure.
From Prestonsburg, a small town in Eastern Kentucky's coal country, This Town Has Ghosts channel melodic death metal hooks and metalcore heft into music that feels rooted in both regional identity and broader extremity.
Connecticut's This White Mountain have been sculpting atmospheric black metal out of Mansfield since 2009, weaving sweeping, nature-inspired ambiance through tremolo-driven darkness in the tradition of the American atmospheric underground.
Charlottesville, Virginia's ThisMeansYou bring an unusual combination of melodic death metal intensity and power metal's anthemic drive to their music, resulting in a sound that's technically demanding and emotionally broad.
Phoenix, Arizona's Tho Ko Losi have been grinding since 2017, combining death metal's sonic density with grindcore's brutal economy of time — fast, violent, and uninterested in subtlety.
With origins tracing to Tel Aviv in 2016 and listed under a US flag, Thokkian Vortex practice unadorned black metal that speaks a universal language of frost and malice regardless of geography.
A Pennsylvania atmospheric black metal project formed in 2022, Tholin pursue the introspective and expansive side of the genre — dense walls of tremolo and texture serving as vessels for longing and desolation.
Berkeley, California's Tholus have been developing their progressive death metal vision since 2007, fusing technical death metal's precision with progressive music's compositional ambition in a Bay Area scene with plenty of both traditions to draw from.
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