Austin's Esclavo — Spanish for "slave" — crawls through the sludge and doom underground with the heavy, chain-dragging gait implied by its name. Since 2010 the band has cultivated a sound rooted in the slow, suffocating tradition of Southern sludge, earning its place in a city with a rich history of underground heaviness.

Brutal Heavy Metal (early); Thrash / Death Metal (later) from Arlington.

Houston's Evokation are a thrash metal outfit forged in 2016 with a clear debt to the old-school Bay Area and Teutonic traditions, filtered through the Texas heat. They traffic in fast, riff-forward aggression with shouted vocals and breakneck tempos that keep the spirit of classic thrash alive in the Bayou City underground.

Funeral doom duo of Shane Elwell and Ryan Wilson, who also collaborate in Pneuma Hagion. Released a split with Wilson's solo project The Howling Void.

Suffocating Heavy / Doom Metal out of Texas.

Houston psychedelic doom metal signed to Ripple Music.

Austin space rock/doom band blending stoner doom, psychedelia, and vintage analog synths. Featuring Rob McCarthy on guitar/vocals/synths, they released The Band from Beyond on Bandcamp in 2018 after years of demos and EPs.

Blasphemous Funeral Doom / Black Metal / Ambient from Dallas.

College Station, Texas's Galactic Morgue draw from doom, heavy metal, and punk to create a genre-blurring sound with one foot in the grave and the other on a fuzz pedal. Active since 2019.