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Dark Angel (2025)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Abstracted Mind (2018)
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Featured Depressive Black Metal Album
psychic behaviors (2021)
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Intense Heavy Metal from El Paso.
Austin, Texas NWOTHM project. Soaring classic heavy metal from the Live Music Capital.
Afterglo is a heavy metal band from San Antonio, Texas. Their 2016 full-length "The Afterglows" delivers twelve tracks of classic heavy metal from the Alamo City.
Austin, Texas NWOTHM project named after the newspaper advice section. Classic metal from the Live Music Capital.
Dallas, Texas NWOTHM project. The Spanish name — 'black wings' — adds Latin American flavor to DFW traditional metal.
El Paso, Texas NWOTHM project. The cynical name targets cultural compromise from the border city.
Heavy/doom metal with gothic rock and neofolk elements from Austin.
Houston NWOTHM project named after the famous British warship. Traditional heavy metal from Texas's largest city, carrying naval tradition into the metal underground.
Intricate Progressive Heavy Metal from San Antonio, Texas (early); Philadephia, Pennsylvania (mid); Los Angeles, California (later).
Veteran US power metal act formed in 1990. Toured 46 countries, including eight years performing for the Department of Defense entertaining troops worldwide.
Melodic progressive metal from Houston with art-rock grandeur.
Humble, Texas NWOTHM act from the Houston suburbs, bringing classic heavy metal revival to the Gulf Coast with anthemic riffs and soaring energy.
Epic Melodic Power Metal from Houston.
Brutal Symphonic Deathcore from Pennsylvania /.
Dynamic Melodic Groove Metal, Metalcore from Houston.
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