21 Acts of Manslaughter is a grindcore act from Eustace, Texas, releasing an eight-track blast in 2020 that includes covers of Celtic Frost's "Procreation of the Wicked" and Sepultura's "Troops of Doom." The choice of covers reveals a reverence for extreme metal's founding fathers alongside their own bursts of grinding fury. The band represents the unlikely but enduring presence of grindcore in rural East Texas.

Punishing Grindcore from Houston.

Long-running Texas extreme metal from Amarillo founded by Ramon Cazares. Blends death metal with black metal, thrash, groove, and grind.

Devastating Brutal Death Metal / Goregrind out of Texas.

Crushing Technical / Avant-garde Death Metal / Grindcore out of Texas.

Savage Melodic / Progressive Death Metal / Grindcore from Brownsville.

Austin, Texas goregrind act Basic Torture Procedure formed in 2020, operating as an unsigned independent outfit before splitting up and leaving behind a brief run of uncompromising extreme noise.

Relentless Black / Death / Groove Metal / Grindcore from Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas (early); Austin, Texas (later).

Experimental post-black metal/grindcore/hardcore from Dallas.

Dallas, Texas death metal and grindcore outfit Coffin Hoarder push into experimental territory, combining brutality with unpredictable structures that subvert genre expectations. They're one of Dallas's more adventurous extreme metal acts.

Ruthless Grindcore / Technical Death Metal from Dallas.

Houston's Collapsed Mainframe is a genre-agnostic extremity project drawing from black metal, death metal, doom, and grindcore simultaneously — a chaotic, sprawling sound that fits neatly into Houston's notoriously eclectic underground.

Blackened crust/grind addressing border, religious, and governmental oppression in the El Paso region. Active 2010-2016 on Unholy Anarchy Records.

San Antonio, Texas's Con Carnage charge through a cross-section of death metal, grindcore, and hardcore, channeling the Lone Star State's underground aggression into fast, frenzied attacks.

Dallas's Construction Sports are a genre-bending experiment in extremity, hurling death metal, grindcore, sludge, and power metal into chaotic collision in one of Texas's most unpredictable and adventurous heavy acts.