Unhinged Grindcore from Brownsville/Mission/Edinburg.

Dallas' Dead Rising have been a fixture of the North Texas extreme underground since 2016, churning out death metal and grindcore that owes as much to blast-beat brutality as to the relentless D/FW scene that surrounds them. Fast, violent, and unapologetically extreme.

Dallas's Deadtooth throw crossover thrash, death metal, and grindcore into a blender and dare you to keep up — messy, fast, and completely uninterested in making it easy on the listener. Since 2009, they've been one of the DFW underground's most chaotically reliable exports.

Savage Brutal Death Metal / Grindcore from Mesquite, Texas (early); Kansas City, Missouri (later).

Ruthless Goregrind / Brutal Death Metal from Fort Worth.

Featured Dobber Beverly (Insect Warfare, Infernal Dominion, Ingurgitate) on drums and synth. Their debut The Ministers of Lamentation channeled 90s-era Incantation/Immolation darkness with atmospheric keyboard elements, standing apart from the typical brutal slam sound of the TXDM scene. Released on Ossuary Industries and Corpse Gristle.

Dallas brutal death metal. Pioneers of the slam death subgenre with guttural, inhuman heaviness.

Savage Doom / Death Metal with Grindcore influences from Plano.

McKinney, Texas outfit Dr. Brutacalypse have been weaponizing grindcore, death metal, and hardcore into a single blunt-force instrument since 2013. Their approach is relentlessly chaotic — short, pulverizing tracks that slam together punk urgency, guttural extremity, and North Texas aggression without pausing to take a breath.