Houston death/black metal act marching through grim territory since 2017, channeling the occult density of war metal into something more deliberate and ritualistic. They are part of a strong Houston extreme metal underground that takes darkness seriously.

Austin funeral doom metal act named for the sleeping shepherd of Greek myth, conjuring extraordinarily slow, grief-saturated music since 2024. In a city known for every other genre, they carve out space for the most patient and mournful strain of extreme metal.

Filthy Black Metal out of Texas.

Gainesville, Texas's Entormus has been cultivating raw, uncompromising black metal since 2013 — a small-town project forged in isolation that translates into music with a genuinely feral quality, free from the self-consciousness of larger urban scenes.

Theatrical symphonic extreme metal conceived by frontman Dennis Dorsett. Featured in the documentaries 'Heavy in Houston' and 'Heavier in Houston.' Have shared stages with Nile, Deicide, and Carach Angren.

Blasphemous Death / Black Metal / Grindcore from San Antonio.

Raw Electronic Black Metal from Austin.

Austin's Eschaton occupies an unusual corner of the black metal spectrum, incorporating electronic elements that give the genre's cold atmospheric foundation an eerie, synthetic quality. Formed in 2010, the project treats digital texture as something that deepens rather than undermines the music's darkness.

Fort Worth's Espials von Lethe has practiced black metal since 2003, taking its name from Lethe — the river of forgetfulness in Greek mythology — and building music around themes of oblivion and dissolution. Two decades of underground activity have kept the project true to an austere, uncompromising vision.

San Antonio's Essence of Undeath emerged in 2021 wielding a corrosive blend of black and death metal forged in South Texas heat. Their blackened death attack is both ferocious and suffocating.

Frigid Black Metal from Mission.

Venomous Black Metal out of Texas.

Laredo's Eulogium have been conjuring cold, uncompromising black metal from the Rio Grande borderlands since 2014, one of the few voices in the city's extreme underground. Their isolation from larger metal centers seems to harden rather than diminish their conviction.

Venomous Black Metal out of Texas.

A solo black metal project based in Greenville, Texas, Evan Cotner has been building an idiosyncratic body of work since 2005 that spans black metal and various adjacent territories. Operating from the rural expanse of Northeast Texas, the project carries the isolated, self-driven spirit common to the most committed one-person black metal undertakings.