Dallas hardcore/death metal addressing police brutality, racism, and trans visibility.

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

Razor-sharp Crossover / Hardcore / Thrash Metal out of Texas.

Dual-vocalist sludge metal/hardcore featuring Andrea Russi and Alyce H. Smith up front. A punishing addition to Houston's heavy underground.

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.

Houston brutal death metal trio fusing hardcore aggression with old-school death metal.

Dallas death metal with a crushing old-school sound. Multiple releases on MNRK Heavy.

Dirty Rotten Imbeciles. Houston crossover thrash legends who helped define the genre.

San Antonio's Dawn of Ash weld brutal death metal to hardcore's confrontational urgency, a combination that hits like a sledgehammer wrapped in barbed wire. One of the newest entries in Texas's consistently ferocious extreme metal scene, formed in 2025.

Seguin, Texas's Deadly Mass bring death metal and hardcore together with the direct, no-wasted-motion approach of a band formed in 2023 with something to prove. The Hill Country may be known for country music, but Deadly Mass are here to correct that narrative.

Denton, Texas crossover act Degenerate have been fusing thrash, hardcore, and punk energy since 2016, plugging into the North Texas underground that's long been fertile ground for aggressive, genre-blurring music. Their sound hits fast and mean — the kind of crossover that owes equal debts to DRI and Slayer — and lives or dies by its ferocity in a live room.

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.

Dallas' End Times evolved from hardcore roots into a volatile blend of death metal, thrash, and hardcore crossover — the kind of band whose evolution mirrors the city's own heavy music scene expanding outward in every direction. Formed in 2010, they've grown harder and heavier with time.

Filthy old school death metal on Me Saco un Ojo Records. 2022 debut 'Unburied Corpse' is a slab of cavernous OSDM that earned strong underground buzz.

Brutal Death Metal / Hardcore / Grindcore from Fort Worth.