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Dark Angel (2025)
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Abstracted Mind (2018)
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psychic behaviors (2021)
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Devastating Progressive Melodic Death Metal / Deathcore out of Texas.
Devastating Symphonic Black / Gothic / Nu-Metal / Deathcore from Dallas.
Crushing Deathcore from San Antonio.
Devastating Deathcore out of Texas.
Brutal Symphonic Deathcore out of Texas.
Brutal Technical Death Metal / Deathcore out of Texas.
Longview, Texas act formed in 2014, stacking technical death metal intricacy on top of a deathcore framework for a sound that is simultaneously punishing and precisely executed. They represent the East Texas underground's willingness to push extremity beyond genre borders.
Monolithic Doom Metal from Houston.
Crushing Symphonic Deathcore from Houston.
Heavy Progressive Death Metal / Deathcore from Houston.
Houston deathcore/progressive death metal. Debut album Treachery released 2023.
Punishing Deathcore from Waxahachie.
Laredo, Texas — a border city with its own fierce cultural identity — is home to Requiem for Redemption, a band that has been fusing thrash and deathcore with death metal heaviness since 2011. Their South Texas roots give their extreme metal an intensity shaped by a region underrepresented in the national metal conversation. Border-country brutality with crossover appeal.
Crushing Technical Deathcore from Bay Area, California (early); Texas (later).
Heavy Brutal Death Metal / Deathcore from Brownsville.
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