San Antonio, Texas slam/brutal death metal band Basement Burial formed in 2023, delivering the subgenre's hallmark combination of pulverizing rhythms and extreme subject matter.

Texas slam death metal project wallowing in the subgenre's most extreme end — bowel-deep gutturals, grinding rhythms, and pure sonic grotesquerie. Strictly underground, strictly brutal.

Converse, Texas's Esophagus Rot plies slam death metal with the porcine heaviness the subgenre demands — bowel-deep gutturals, caveman-slow breakdowns, and riffs designed to pulverize before they progress. Formed in 2020, the band stakes its claim in San Antonio's surrounding underground with pure, unadorned brutality.

Ruthless Slam / Brutal Death Metal from Dallas.

Devastating Slam / Brutal Death Metal from Corpus Christi, Texas / Kansas / New Mexico.

Ripping Slam / Brutal Death Metal from Livingston.

Savage Slam / Brutal Death Metal from Beeville.

Texas slam and brutal death metal act Spontaneous Curettage formed in 2024, delivering dense, gore-obsessed extremity rooted in the slam subgenre's tradition of pulverizing rhythms and guttural vocals.

Ruthless Slam / Brutal Death Metal / Hardcore from Houston.

Houston's The Voices in My Head have been delivering punishing slam death metal since 2014, leaning hard into guttural vocals, chunky slam breakdowns, and the kind of surgical brutality that defines the Texas underground's more extreme end.

A brand new Houston, Texas outfit formed in 2025, Torso Mastectomy dives straight into slam and brutal death metal's most visceral territory, adding to Texas' deep tradition of extreme heaviness.

A Texas-based project formed in 2024, Worminfestedcorpse operate at the most punishing end of the brutal death metal and slam spectrum. Brand new to the scene, the band is already committed to the genre's most extreme sonic and lyrical territory, with a name that makes no pretense about the aesthetic.