Austin's Taverner occupy the volatile space where metalcore collides with powerviolence and grindcore, a combination that makes their music as chaotic as the city's music scene is eclectic. Formed in 2016, they channel the blistering pace of powerviolence into song structures that occasionally open up just long enough to crush you with a metalcore breakdown before pulling the floor out again.

Furious Death / Thrash Metal / Grindcore from Houston.

Devastating Death Metal / Grindcore from Houston.

Punishing Grindcore / Sludge Metal / Hardcore from Houston.

Relentless Technical Grindcore / Mathcore from Allen.

Relentless Grindcore out of Texas.

San Antonio's Toluca have been grinding out a punishing fusion of death metal and grindcore since 2012, favoring short, brutal bursts of noise that align with the most uncompromising end of the Texas underground.

Dallas death/grind act Triage have been trading in punishing, medically-themed aggression since 2020 — their Bandcamp handle "triage666" making plain the irreverent extremity of the project. They represent the Texas scene's appetite for short, brutally efficient metal that wastes nothing and forgives nothing.

Trucha is a brutal death metal and goregrind band from El Paso, Texas, formed in 2020, unleashing guttural extremity with the relentless intensity typical of the goregrind subgenre.

Relentless Grindcore from Dallas.