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Relentless Experimental Death / Thrash Metal out of Texas.
San Antonio black/death metal band formed in 2025, a newly emerged Texas act fusing the corrosive rawness of black metal with death metal ferocity.
Speed-obsessed, blasphemous death metal inspired by Angelcorpse, Krisiun, and Hate Eternal. Releases on Lavadome Productions and Iron Blood and Death Corporation.
Houston outfit threading progressive and thrash sensibilities through death metal since 2012, known for technically ambitious arrangements and sharp, aggressive riffing.
Houston death/thrash outfit channeling high-octane aggression through tight, riff-forward songwriting built on the crossover territory between both genres.
Punishing Death Metal / Hardcore out of Texas.
Houston brutal death metal outfit drawing from Cannibal Corpse and Gorgasm, delivering technically demanding riffs and guttural vocals with surgical clarity. Members carry pedigrees from Horrific Demise and Desecrate the Faith.
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Technical dissonant death metal signed to Willowtip Records. Their sound draws from Obscura-era Gorguts and Immolation, with members Ian Bishop, Chris Hillam, and Sam Kang forming the core lineup since 2012.
Brutal Death Metal from Houston, Texas / Seattle, Washington / Phoenix, Arizona (early); Houston, Texas (later).
Celestial Corrosion blends the morbid atmosphere of death metal with the slow, oppressive weight of doom, creating a suffocating sound well-suited to Dallas's heavy underground. Their music moves between glacial tempos and mid-paced death metal aggression.
Celestial Theory is a symphonic melodic death metal band from Mercedes, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley. They fuse death metal's brutality with melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility and orchestral arrangements to create layered, cinematic compositions.
Cemetarian is a death metal band from Houston, Texas, working in the filthy, cavernous tradition of bands like Incantation and Autopsy, favoring thick production and lurching, morbid riff patterns rooted in early-1990s death metal aesthetics.
Groove death/thrash from San Marcos. Has opened for Anthrax, The Black Dahlia Murder, Devildriver, Cattle Decapitation, and Suffocation.
Houston, Texas death-doom band blending the slow, grinding heaviness of doom metal with death metal's brutality, creating a dense and oppressive sound rooted in the Texas extreme metal scene.
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