San Antonio's Sacrificial Possession arrived in 2023 with a black/death metal sound rooted in hostility and ritual darkness — the kind of band that treats genre conventions as a launchpad rather than a ceiling. Their approach fuses the savagery of death metal's low-end brutality with the icy tremolo malevolence of black metal, carving out a uniquely Texan corner of the underground.

Raw blackened speed metal channeling Motorhead and Judas Priest through an extreme metal lens. 'Midnight Assassin' is a nine-track ode to serial killers.

Filthy Depressive / Post-Black Metal from Oak Park, Illinois (early); Texas (mid); Baltimore, Maryland (later).

Austin's Sarpa have been pursuing black/death metal since 2020, bringing the Texas capital's increasingly dense extreme metal underground another entry in the serpentine tradition the band's name invokes. Their sound moves with the coiled aggression of the subgenre's finest work — death metal's weight carrying the black metal's atmosphere rather than the other way around.

A Texas raw black metal project born in 2025, Satanik and Konfused embrace the deliberately primitive and abrasive end of the spectrum — lo-fi production, caustic riffs, and a contempt for polish that defines the raw black metal underground. Young and uncompromising, they represent the genre's DIY spirit in its most unfiltered form.

Ultra-limited war metal cult. Releases pressed in runs of 5 to 300 copies, available only directly from the band.

Filthy Progressive Black Metal out of Texas.

Relentless Post-Black Metal from Mansfield, Connecticut /.

Waco, Texas black metal project Seiobo takes its name from a figure in East Asian mythology and channels that sense of the otherworldly into Texas's growing underground black metal scene since 2023. Operating out of a city not typically associated with the genre, Seiobo represents the kind of geographically unexpected but sonically committed black metal that keeps the genre's underground alive and unpredictable.

Hailing from the rural plains of Farmersville, Texas, Selchidh has been crafting immersive atmospheric black metal since 2015, weaving vast, desolate soundscapes that feel native to the wide open skies of North Texas. Their music favors expansive, textured compositions that trade speed for mood, layering tremolo-driven riffs beneath cold, windswept ambience. They remain one of the quieter but more distinctive voices in the American atmospheric black metal underground.

Sepulchrum emerged from Irving, Texas in 2023 trafficking in raw black metal of the most unadorned and primitive variety. Their music strips the genre down to its coldest essentials — corrosive tremolo, lo-fi production, and an atmosphere of total hostility — rooted in the underground black metal ethos that eschews refinement by design. They are part of a quietly growing raw black metal presence in the North Texas area.

Scorching Speed / Black Metal from Austin.

Dallas newcomers Shadowed Sacrifice launched in 2025 with a ferocious convergence of black, death, and thrash metal, arriving fully committed to extremity from the start. The trio of genre influences produces a venomous, fast-moving sound that reflects the uncompromising intensity of the Texas underground.

Out of Stephenville, Texas, Shinigami no Yuujin delivers raw, isolated black metal with a deep personal intensity, operating in the margins of the Texas underground since 2015 with a commitment to the genre's most austere traditions.

Blasphemous Black Metal from Texas / New Mexico.