Active 2012-2022. Debuted with 'The Prophecy in the Entrails' in 2017, followed by 'Hibernaculum of Decay' in 2018.

From Harlingen in deep South Texas, Degradation pursue brutal death metal with the ferocity you'd expect from the Rio Grande Valley's isolated, fiercely independent underground. Formed in 2024, they bring the punishing, gore-drenched aesthetic of brutal death metal to a corner of Texas not typically on the extreme metal map — which makes their existence all the more defiant.

Three albums of merciless brutality on Comatose Music. Toured the U.S. and Europe. A reliable bludgeoning force in the Houston brutal death metal scene.

San Antonio, Texas's Dismemberment of a Whore are one of the newest additions to Texas's longstanding brutal death metal tradition, forming in 2024 with the name and intent of a band that means business. Part of a city with serious underground death metal credibility, they arrive fully committed to the most uncompromising end of the brutal death spectrum.

Ripping Brutal Death Metal from Austin.

West Texas oil country might not seem like fertile ground for brutal death metal, but Midland's Emotionless Laceration have been at work since 2019 building a punishing catalog of gutturals and downtuned devastation in one of the state's most isolated cities.

Savage Brutal Death Metal from Rio Grande Valley.

Austin's Eros Rot channels the city's underground death metal scene into brutal, single-minded savagery — dense, downtuned, and drenched in gore — with a name that announces exactly what kind of territory the band inhabits. Since 2021, they've pursued uncompromising brutality with no concessions to accessibility.

Converse, Texas's Esophagus Rot plies slam death metal with the porcine heaviness the subgenre demands — bowel-deep gutturals, caveman-slow breakdowns, and riffs designed to pulverize before they progress. Formed in 2020, the band stakes its claim in San Antonio's surrounding underground with pure, unadorned brutality.