Frigid Black Metal from San Antonio.

Hard-hitting Heavy Metal out of Texas.

Supergroup featuring members of Venomous Maximus, Necrofier, and punk act Bickley. Laser-focused 80s metal worship with punk grit, signed to Germany's High Roller Records.

Savage Black Metal / Punk from Austin.

Dallas, Texas's No Respect have been flying the flag for traditional heavy metal and hard rock since 2007, a rare purist act in a scene often dominated by more extreme sounds. With nearly two decades of activity, they carry the kind of lived-in authority that comes from committing fully to the classic metal template — big riffs, unabashed hooks, and the swagger of a band that has nothing to prove and everything to deliver.

Hard-hitting heavy metal from San Antonio.

Houston's Premonition cast a wide net across the harder end of American metal, blending groove metal's rhythmic menace with thrash's precision attack and the raw momentum of traditional heavy metal. Founded in 2018, they represent the Texas underground's appetite for metal that hits with physicality first, drawing from the region's deep well of heavy music that prizes impact over experimentation.

A solo darkwave and ambient project launched in Dallas, Texas in 2007 by Proscriptor McGovern, the drummer and vocalist best known from occult black metal act Absu. Proscriptor's output here veers into atmospheric, ceremonial territory that draws on esoteric imagery far removed from the conventional metal canon.

Houston's Ripper emerged in 2020 with a commitment to traditional heavy metal rooted in the Texas underground. Their sound channels the raw, no-frills energy of classic metal — riff-driven and unpretentious — with the grit you'd expect from a band forged in one of the country's most storied metal cities.