Founding fathers of extreme metal in the Rio Grande Valley. Death/black metal since 1988.

Scorching Experimental Black Metal (early); Post-Rock (later) from Grand Prairie.

Blackened death metal horde featuring former members of Thornspawn, Hod, and Burial Shroud. Filthy, bestial sound in the vein of Blasphemy and Necrovore.

Frigid Black Metal / Ambient from San Antonio.

Gnostic-themed duo of Ryan Wilson (The Howling Void, Intestinal Disgorge) and drummer Shane Elwell. Released on Nuclear War Now! and Everlasting Spew Records.

Austin blackened screamo/hardcore. Vicious, genre-blending intensity that defies easy categorization.

Savage Melodic Death / Black Metal from Houston.

San Antonio's Profundum fuse symphonic grandeur with the savagery of death and black metal, creating music that is simultaneously cinematic and ferocious. Active since 2016, they weave orchestral elements into the fabric of extreme metal without softening its edges, letting the two impulses collide and reinforce each other. As one of Texas's few bands working in symphonic death-black territory, they occupy a distinctive niche in the state's predominantly raw and stripped-down extreme metal underground.

Black/thrash metal from Dallas. Continuation of Absu legacy.

Houston's Purest are a freshly formed black metal act, emerging in 2024 with the raw, stripped-down ethos that defines the genre's underground current. Too new to have an established catalog, they represent the continued vitality of black metal in the Texas extreme music scene.

An El Paso black metal act formed in 2018, Pyre operates at the harsh, stripped-down end of the genre, conjuring cold and unrelenting tremolo-driven savagery from the Chihuahuan desert borderlands.