San Antonio's Chemical Warfare wages a thrash assault with the aggressive spirit of the Texas underground. Their music is fast, aggressive, and unapologetically rooted in the classic thrash tradition.

Blasphemous Black Metal from Spring/Houston.

Savage Melodic Black / Death Metal / Metalcore from Fort Worth.

Filthy Depressive / Post-Black Metal from Oak Park, Illinois (early); Texas (mid); Baltimore, Maryland (later).

Hailing from Venus, Texas, Silent Deep Ocean arrived in 2024 with a sound rooted in the slow suffocation of doom and the cold grandeur of gothic metal, building a world of dense atmosphere somewhere between grief and subterranean dread.

San Antonio's The Temple Dark have been crafting Gothic metal with a brooding, cinematic quality since 2007, drawing from the genre's European roots while planting themselves in a Texas city with its own rich history of dark and atmospheric music. Their sound leans into melody, atmosphere, and emotional weight over pure aggression.