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.

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.