Frigid Black Metal from Texas/Minnesota.

Short-lived blackened thrash/crust unit active 2007-2009. Lyrics addressed corruption, anti-government themes, and Mexican wrestlers.

Blackened thrash "for a desert funeral." Features Zawicizuz, former guitarist on Absu's acclaimed 2009 self-titled album.

One of the oldest USBM bands, active since 1993. Named after the Isengard song. Released on Werewolf Records with decades of raw, bestial output.

Laredo, Texas border city black metal act Throne ov Blood have been operating since 2007, embodying the raw and sinister aesthetic that the 'ov' in their name signals — deliberately lo-fi, occult-tinged, and indifferent to polish. Their longevity in one of Texas's most isolated music scenes speaks to a genuine dedication to the black metal underground.

Ferocious Black / Thrash Metal from Houston.

Ruthless Black / Death Metal from Clute.

A Houston, Texas black metal band formed in 2020, Thy Kingdom Burn operates within the city's surprisingly active extreme underground, channeling the raw, anti-religious hostility of the genre with a Texas-sized bluntness. Their name signals a contempt for sacred institutions that sits comfortably alongside Houston's broader tradition of uncompromising extreme music.

Austin's Tibetan Sky Burial fuse blackened savagery with the wide, contemplative sweep of post-metal, drawing on funerary imagery and drone-laden atmospherics. The project formed in 2020 and occupies the bleaker, more ritualistic corner of the Texas experimental underground.

Dallas's Todeskrieger, formed in 2020, practice unadorned black metal in the most orthodox sense — cold, aggressive, and rooted in the tradition's core values of atmosphere and nihilism, operating from one of Texas's most active underground metal cities.

An Austin, Texas raw black metal act formed in 2022, Torture embraces lo-fi production and primitive aggression — deliberately corrosive and antagonistic in the tradition of underground USBM's most unpolished factions.

Brutal Blackened Death Metal from Denton, Texas/Louisville, Kentucky.

Texas-based blackened death metal project Total Human Genocide Division 218 operate at the violent intersection of black and death metal, delivering misanthropic extremity under a name that leaves no ambiguity about their sonic intentions.

Bestial war metal from West Texas. Demo released through Nuclear War Now! Productions, debut full-length on Transcending Obscurity Records.

World War Metal from Austin featuring members of Imprecation and Morbosidad. Debut full-length Commandoccult released 2022 on Godz Ov War Productions.