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Dark Angel (2025)
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Abstracted Mind (2018)
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psychic behaviors (2021)
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Devastating Progressive / Doom / Death Metal from Dallas.
Progressive melodic death metal featuring Nick Brady and Ryan Cullins on guitars with influences ranging from technical death to melodic hooks. Self-released their debut EP in 2013.
San Antonio's Emissary occupy the progressive melodic death metal space with authority, weaving clean and brutal dynamics through technically demanding arrangements that reflect South Texas's underappreciated tradition of ambitious metal.
Self-described "Cosmic Enlighten Metal." Originally from Denver before relocating. Critically acclaimed debut 'Journey to Enlightenment' put them on the map in 2014.
Ambitious Progressive Metal out of Texas.
Filthy Black Metal out of Texas.
Punishing Progressive Death Metal from Austin.
Abilene's Entropy bring a progressive sensibility to West Texas heavy rock, balancing hard rock accessibility with the compositional ambition of prog metal since 2020.
Intricate Progressive Metal out of Texas.
Ambitious Melodic Progressive Metal out of Texas.
Soaring Progressive Heavy / Power Metal out of Texas.
Abilene's Eugenic Order weld industrial machinery to progressive metal architecture, producing something austere and mechanized from the flat West Texas plains since 2013. The combination of extremity and clockwork precision makes them a singular presence in the state's underground.
Ambitious Progressive Metal from Conroe.
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