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Fort Worth · 2018–present · active
Fort Worth's Life of Scars have been tearing through death-thrash hybrids since 2018, their music carrying the hard-edged industrial grit of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex's working underground.
San Marcos · 2020–present · active
San Marcos death/grind outfit formed in 2020, delivering punishing blastbeats and caustic riffs with the relentless intensity the Texas underground demands.
San Antonio · 2018–present · active
Crushing Death Metal / Grindcore from San Antonio.
Albuquerque · 2013–present · active
Devastating Technical / Brutal Death Metal from Texas (early); Albuquerque, New Mexico (later).
Fort Worth · 2020–present · active
Crushing Blackened Death Metal from Fort Worth.
Fort Worth · 2016–present · active
Ripping Death Metal from Fort Worth.
Houston · 2007–? · disbanded
Ripping Thrash / Death Metal from Spring/Houston.
Houston · active
Crushing Slam / Brutal Death Metal / Hardcore out of Texas.
Fort Worth · 2010–present · active
Fort Worth's Magnus build technical progressive metal with a Texas sense of scale — sprawling, precise, and unafraid of complexity. Since 2010 they've pushed the boundaries of what progressive metal can sound like in the Lone Star underground.
Austin · 2012–present · active
Crushing Progressive Death Metal from Flower Mound/Austin.
Dallas · 2011–present · active
Ferocious Melodic Death / Thrash Metal from Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington.
Houston · 2019–present · active
Members drawn from War Master, Oceans of Slumber, and Necrofier. 'Realms of Exquisite Morbidity' (2021) on Dark Descent Records is a crushing slab of cavernous, doom-inflected death metal.
Austin · 2006–present · active
Death metal meets hardcore punk meets d-beat. Relentless energy.
Laredo · 2000–? · disbanded
Savage Black / Death Metal from Laredo.
Houston · 1997–present · active
Blasphemous Black Metal out of Texas.

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