Ferocious Industrial / Thrash / Groove Metal from Phoenix, Arizona (early); Austin, Texas (later).

Aduanten is a melodic death metal band from Austin, Texas. With two EPs — 2021's "Sullen Cadence" and 2025's "Apocryphal Verse" — the band delivers tightly constructed melodic death metal that adds to Austin's growing extreme metal presence.

Crushing Technical / Avant-garde Death Metal / Grindcore out of Texas.

Death metal act that migrated from the Clearwater/Tampa corridor to Austin, Texas, carrying Florida's legendary death metal DNA into the Lone Star State. Their two albums — Age of Overload and Lords of Destiny — blend old-school Florida brutality with a fresh perspective.

Houston melodic death metal act whose 2008 debut The Great Celestial Delusion channels cosmic disillusionment through Scandinavian-influenced riffing. Paradise in flames, rendered in dual harmonies from the Bayou City.

Plainview, Texas melodic death metal project — one of the few metal acts from the West Texas plains. Three releases since 2017 including Sanguinarium and Of Vacant Planes draw metaphorical power from the vast, empty landscape stretching to the horizon.

Dallas melodic death metal project with seven releases since 2021. A New Low and Empty Vessel anchor a prolific catalog that channels Scandinavian melodeath traditions through DFW Metroplex intensity, the name pairing nuclear physics with Durkheimian sociology.