Dallas heavy trio fusing drone, doom, post-rock, noise, grunge, and classic metal.

Denton's The Fear of the Sun occupy a hazy borderland between stoner metal's fuzz-drenched grooves, doom's slow-burning heaviness, and the expansive drift of post-rock, active since 2014 in a city that's long punched above its weight for adventurous music. Their sound is patient and immersive, built on guitar tones that feel like heat radiating off asphalt under a relentless Texas summer. The name itself is a perfect encapsulation of music that feels simultaneously oppressive and vast.

Fort Worth's The Good Kind of Mushroom have been cultivating their brand of stoner doom and psychedelic rock since 2015, with a name that leaves no ambiguity about the headspace they're aiming for. Their music sprawls through slow, heavily fuzzed riffs that open up into psychedelic passages, sitting comfortably in the tradition of Texas heavy music while carving out its own hazy corner. They represent the scrappier, more experimental side of the DFW underground, distinct from the city's more polished metal acts.

Symphonic/funeral doom metal from San Antonio.

Stoner doom institution. 'Age of Winters' put Austin heavy rock on the map.

Austin power trio blending knotty prog, punk, and bluesy doom rock.

Hailing from Pampa, Texas — a remote stretch of the Panhandle — This Noose... My Neck... practice funeral doom of the most desolate variety, stretching grief and isolation into glacially slow compositions that feel as vast as the surrounding plains.

Sabbath-worship heavy psych doom formed in 2018. Released multiple albums through Ripple Music including the live album 'Dead Alive in Texas'.

An Austin, Texas band active since 2015, Thunderkief sink deep into the psychedelic fog where stoner and doom metal overlap, building slow-burning songs that unfold under layers of distortion and haze. They're a product of Austin's fertile heavy underground, carrying the city's tradition of loud, unhurried music played with real conviction.