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The Withering Lands (2024)
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Croaking For Entrails (2017)
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Thy Entity of Evil (2022)
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Relentless Melodic Black Metal from Brownsville.
Raw Raw Black Metal out of Texas.
Austin, Texas black metal band driving cold tremolo riffs and blastbeats through a raw, underground framework. Cyanide Winds adds a Texas edge to black metal's atmospheric darkness and corrosive fury.
Austin, Texas black metal band operating in the cold, riff-forward tradition of raw black metal. Cymoril cultivates a grim and uncompromising sound from the Texas underground.
Hermetic black metal project featuring drummer Antinom, who went on to form Vasaeleth. Active 2003-2009 before disbanding.
Bryan, Texas's Dark Altar have been consecrating blackened death metal rituals since 2015, fusing the grim atmosphere of black metal with death metal's crushing low-end brutality. A Texas underground institution with a genuinely menacing presence.
San Antonio's Dark Therion pursues a raw and uncompromising black metal path, drawing on the occult symbolism embedded in its name while carving out its place in Texas's growing extreme underground since 2022.
Frigid Melodic Death / Black Metal from Houston.
Blasphemous Atmospheric Black Metal from Austin.
Hailing from the wide, isolated stretches of West Texas, Dead of Night channel melodic black metal into something windswept and desolate, fitting for the Midessa landscape that shaped them. Cold harmonics and raw atmosphere define their approach.
Blackened sludge/doom metal with crust influences from Dallas.
Austin's Dearly Departed work in the depressive and post-black metal space, channeling the emotional weight of those subgenres through Texas's capital city's increasingly restless underground since 2018. Moody, bleak, and atmospheric.
Fierce Black 'n' Roll from Austin.
Austin's Death Ritual have been conducting thrash metal ceremonies in the Texas underground since 2016, favoring blunt-force riffing and a no-nonsense approach that honors the genre's blue-collar roots. Loud, fast, and Texas-proud.
From the Texas-Mexico border city of Laredo, Decayed Mutilation has been unleashing a death/black/thrash hybrid since 2016 that carries the ferocity of a scene forged on the cultural edge of two countries. Border-town extremity with something to prove.
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