Seguin, Texas may be a small town between San Antonio and Austin, but Paegan brings full-on death metal brutality since 2016. Their sound leans into crushing tempos and unrelenting aggression drawn straight from the Lone Star extreme underground.

Ruthless Death Metal from Houston.

Founding fathers of extreme metal in the Rio Grande Valley. Death/black metal since 1988.

Heavy Technical / Brutal Death Metal out of Texas.

Punishing Brutal Death Metal, Ambient / Experimental from San Antonio.

Blackened death metal horde featuring former members of Thornspawn, Hod, and Burial Shroud. Filthy, bestial sound in the vein of Blasphemy and Necrovore.

Texas death metal project Plague Zombie emerged in 2025 with rotting riffs and an old-school approach to undead brutality, joining the Lone Star State's long tradition of foul, uncompromising extremity.

Gnostic-themed duo of Ryan Wilson (The Howling Void, Intestinal Disgorge) and drummer Shane Elwell. Released on Nuclear War Now! and Everlasting Spew Records.

Savage Melodic Death / Black Metal from Houston.

Savage Death Metal from Fort Worth.

Brutal Death Metal from Fort Worth.

Crushing Melodic Doom / Death Metal from Dallas.

San Antonio's Profundum fuse symphonic grandeur with the savagery of death and black metal, creating music that is simultaneously cinematic and ferocious. Active since 2016, they weave orchestral elements into the fabric of extreme metal without softening its edges, letting the two impulses collide and reinforce each other. As one of Texas's few bands working in symphonic death-black territory, they occupy a distinctive niche in the state's predominantly raw and stripped-down extreme metal underground.

Brutal Death Metal, Goregrind from Dallas.

Devastating Slam / Brutal Death Metal from Corpus Christi, Texas / Kansas / New Mexico.