Crushing Crust / Death Metal from El Paso.

San Antonio's Sacrificial Possession arrived in 2023 with a black/death metal sound rooted in hostility and ritual darkness — the kind of band that treats genre conventions as a launchpad rather than a ceiling. Their approach fuses the savagery of death metal's low-end brutality with the icy tremolo malevolence of black metal, carving out a uniquely Texan corner of the underground.

Devastating Death Metal / Hardcore from Austin.

Ruthless Melodic Black / Death Metal from Brownwood, Texas (early); Austin, Texas (later).

Progressive death metal from Dallas.

Devastating Technical Brutal Death Metal from Austin.

Austin's Sarpa have been pursuing black/death metal since 2020, bringing the Texas capital's increasingly dense extreme metal underground another entry in the serpentine tradition the band's name invokes. Their sound moves with the coiled aggression of the subgenre's finest work — death metal's weight carrying the black metal's atmosphere rather than the other way around.

Ultra-limited war metal cult. Releases pressed in runs of 5 to 300 copies, available only directly from the band.

Punishing Brutal Death Metal from Dallas/Fort Worth.

Dallas, Texas's Scaphism — named after the infamous ancient Persian torture method — have been delivering brutal death metal out of the DFW area since 2010, embodying the kind of morbid, relentless extremity that has defined Dallas's underground scene. Their technical approach to brutality sets them apart from more primitive peers, showcasing the melodic depth that can coexist with sheer sonic violence.

Ruthless Melodic Death Metal from Denton.

Devastating Progressive Death Metal from San Antonio.

Corpus Christi, Texas's Scourgery has been dealing in brutal death metal since 2017 with the kind of suffocating density that the Gulf Coast heat seems to produce naturally. Their music is defined by inhuman gutturals, chromatic guitar work that shifts between slab-like grooves and technical spiral dives, and percussion that operates at the threshold of physical endurance. South Texas brutal death has its own character — isolated, siege-like, built to outlast comfort — and Scourgery embodies that without compromise.

Punishing Brutal Death Metal from Eagle Lake.

Savage Brutal Death Metal from League City.