San Antonio's Devil Mass emerged in 2022 dragging the full weight of death/doom and black metal into the same suffocating ritual. Their sound is a slow-moving catastrophe — cavernous, funereal, and utterly uncompromising in its devotion to darkness.

Savage Doom / Death Metal with Grindcore influences from Plano.

Austin, Texas's Doom Prophet have been delivering heavy, crawling doom metal to the Live Music Capital since 2020, adding a darker, heavier counterweight to a city more famous for its blues and rock scene. Their heavy/doom sound is built on the tradition of slow-motion riff architecture and an oppressive atmosphere that Austin's heat and sprawl seem to generate naturally. They are part of a growing contingent of Texas acts demonstrating that the state's metal underground extends far beyond thrash.

Monolithic Melodic Doom Metal from Denton.

Houston female-fronted traditional doom. Signed to Ripple Music.

Heavy Doom / Stoner Metal / Rock from Austin.

Austin heavy metal/doom. Classic twin-guitar attack with NWOBHM energy.

Out of Marfa, Texas — a remote high-desert art town as far from a thriving metal scene as you can get — E.E.O.G. trades on slow, sun-cooked doom and stoner riffs that feel as wide and empty as the Chihuahuan landscape outside their door.

San Antonio's Earthen has been operating in the heavy doom metal tradition since 2005, a Texas band that moves at a funeral pace and draws on the long shadows the state's harder rock history casts over everything beneath it.