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1913 is a death metal and deathcore act from San Antonio, Texas, active since 2014. Their eight-track release features lowercase song titles like "peru," "more," and "americana" that hint at themes beyond typical genre fare. The band's name evokes historical weight, fitting for music that carries both brutality and gravity.
Long-running Texas extreme metal from Amarillo founded by Ramon Cazares. Blends death metal with black metal, thrash, groove, and grind.
Heavy Death Metal / Hardcore from Houston.
Colossal Blackened Death / Doom Metal out of Texas.
Houston, Texas death metal project. The medical term for absence of the skull cap — cranial horror from Space City.
Savage Death Metal from Arlington.
Austin, Texas death metal project. The Latin adjective meaning 'bitter' channels disillusionment through Lone Star extremity.
Southeast Texas black metal project from Beaumont specializing in atmospheric, melodically charged darkness. Their earliest material hints at a band reaching for sweeping grandeur within the raw black metal framework.
Aduanten is a melodic death metal band from Austin, Texas. With two EPs — 2021's "Sullen Cadence" and 2025's "Apocryphal Verse" — the band delivers tightly constructed melodic death metal that adds to Austin's growing extreme metal presence.
Agonizing Torture is a brutal death metal band with deathcore elements from Houston, Texas. Their 2021 EP "Chambers of Torture" lives up to the band's name with five tracks of punishing extremity from the Texas Gulf Coast.
Self-styled "Blackened Crowleyan Doom" — psychedelic blues and crushing doom filtered through the occult lens of Aleister Crowley.
Lubbock, Texas metalcore project. Collapse from the dusty flatlands of West Texas.
Houston black/death metal project with a substantial seven-release catalog since 2018. Named for the German word for nightmare, the project delivers relentless extremity rooted in the Texas death metal tradition.
Harlingen, Texas brutal death metal project with an astounding fourteen releases since 2021. One of the most prolific acts in the Rio Grande Valley, churning out a relentless stream of punishing brutality.
Devastating Brutal Death Metal / Goregrind out of Texas.
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