Ripping Progressive Death Metal / Metalcore from Denton.

Triumphant Progressive / Power Metal from Harlingen, Texas (early); Las Vegas, Nevada (later).

Devastating Progressive Melodic Death Metal / Deathcore out of Texas.

Technical Power / Progressive Metal from Dallas.

Technical Avant-garde / Progressive Metal from Arlington, Texas (early); Minnesota (later).

Ambitious Progressive Metal / Shred out of Texas.

Progressive thrash from San Antonio. Featured future Riot drummer Bobby Jarzombek.

Houston's Khepera weave progressive ambition through death and thrash metal, drawing on the technical flair of their city's storied extreme metal scene. Their sound rewards patience — dense arrangements that reveal new details on repeated listens.

Pioneering progressive metal blending funk, soul, and gospel harmonics with heavy riffs. Musicians' musicians.

Intricate Extreme Progressive Metal from Fort Worth.

Technical Progressive Metal out of Texas.

Fort Worth's Magnus build technical progressive metal with a Texas sense of scale — sprawling, precise, and unafraid of complexity. Since 2010 they've pushed the boundaries of what progressive metal can sound like in the Lone Star underground.

Crushing Progressive Death Metal from Flower Mound/Austin.

Houston's Masqued weave orchestral grandeur into progressive metal architecture, a symphonic approach that carries the ambition of the city's outsized character. Since 2013 the band has pushed toward theatrical heaviness with genuine compositional craft.

Denton, Texas's Megatherian operate in the fertile and strange territory of experimental progressive metal, formed in 2013 with an ear for structure-breaking and sonic sprawl. Drawing on the creative ferment of Denton's college-town underground, they push progressive metal into genuinely unpredictable shapes.