One-man melodic black metal project by Knell, inspired by Dissection, Vinterland, and Sacramentum. Debut album The Everlorn released 2020.

Originally from Ohio, now Austin-based. Blackened thrash perfection.

Savage Death / Black Metal with Punk influences from Texas (early); San Diego, California (later).

Georgetown, Texas's Skotose have been exploring black metal's bleaker corridors since 2022, operating just outside of Austin in a suburb that rarely appears on metal maps — their work defined by a cold, direct intensity suited to the Greek-derived name meaning 'darkness.'

A Fort Worth, Texas band forged in 2024, Slashed to Bits operate at the savage intersection of black, death, and thrash metal — a triad that prioritizes venom and speed over any single genre's orthodoxy. Their recent formation places them squarely in the current wave of extreme metal revivalism active across the DFW underground.

Born from a Craigslist ad in 2010 as an instrumental post-rock project. Evolved into atmospheric post-black metal before disbanding in 2021.

Solemn Penitence is a blackened death metal band from Longview, Texas, formed in 2025, merging the ferocity of death metal with the cold, abrasive atmosphere of black metal.

Solitarian is a black metal project from Dallas, Texas, formed in 2019, contributing lone, atmospheric black metal to the Texas underground extreme music scene.

Sombras Sobre el Sol are a Laredo, Texas blackened death metal band formed in 2021, drawing on the border city's cultural intensity to deliver a ferocious blend of black metal atmosphere and death metal heaviness.