Houston melodic black metal featuring members of Insect Warfare and Oceans of Slumber. Signed to Metal Blade Records.

Raw Black Metal out of Texas.

Frigid Melodic Death / Black Metal from Houston.

Blackened death metal supergroup uniting members of Nyogthaeblisz and Hellvetron under the Ordo Satanae Imperium banner. Debut on Hells Headbangers.

Plano, Texas' Nightworks arrived in 2019 with a black metal vision shaped by the flat suburban sprawl of North Texas — cold, stark, and relentless. Operating within the DFW underground, the project channels genre orthodoxy into something that feels genuinely bleak against a backdrop better known for megachurches than misanthropy.

Raw Black Metal from Austin.

Frigid Black Metal from Austin, Texas / Western New York.

Savage Black Metal / Punk from Austin.

Austin's Ninth Circle takes the same name but an entirely different direction — their black metal/punk hybrid has been tearing through the Texas underground since 2018 with a rawer, more confrontational energy. The influence of punk keeps their black metal lean and furious rather than ornate, fitting neatly into Austin's long tradition of genre-crossing extreme acts.

Austin's Nixmoon has been quietly cultivating a raw and atmospheric black metal sound since 2014, layering howling dissonance over cavernous ambience in ways that feel both primitive and meditative. Their approach sits at the intersection of lo-fi second-wave abrasion and the more expansive post-black textures, creating a distinctly nocturnal sound that fits the isolated, strange edges of the Texas Hill Country.

Houston's Nocturnal Avernus have cultivated a grim presence in the Texas underground since forming in 2008, weaving cold atmospheric black metal from a city better known for its death metal heritage. Their approach leans into darkness and dissonance, standing as one of Houston's more determined black metal voices amid a scene dominated by heavier and denser sounds. Over more than fifteen years of activity, the band has remained resolutely committed to the raw traditions of the genre.

Formed in Fort Worth in 2024, Nocturnal Spawn enter the Texas extreme metal landscape with a black/death metal assault that fits naturally into the DFW area's long tradition of brutal and uncompromising metal. Their sound draws from both traditions without fully committing to either — raw enough for black metal devotees, heavy and aggressive enough to satisfy death metal heads. As a newer act, they carry the weight of Fort Worth's underground credibility into fresh, antagonistic territory.

Frigid Black Metal from Dallas.

Pampa, Texas — a small panhandle city far removed from the state's major metal centers — is home to Nocturnus Mortis, a black metal project formed in 2020 that carries isolation and desolation in its very geography. The name, Latin for "death by night," signals an orthodox approach to the genre's themes of mortality and darkness. Operating well outside any metropolitan scene, the project embodies the solitary, self-sufficient spirit that has always driven the most genuine underground black metal.

Frigid Black Metal from Fort Worth.