Instrumental doom — debut is two tracks spanning 38 minutes, mastered by Proscriptor McGovern of Absu. Follow-up is a single 37-minute track.

Austin outfit combining the slow burn of doom with sludge metal's abrasive grit, channeling the heat and intensity of the Texas underground into bleak, feedback-drenched soundscapes.

Dallas sludge metal outfit Cheap Pipe drags down-tuned riffs through thick, tar-coated grooves with the oppressive patience that defines the genre's southern American strain. Their sound is heavy in the way that Texas heat is heavy — inescapable and grinding.

Denton sludge outfit Chokey grind out dense, suffocating riffs rooted in the Texas underground. Their sound leans into the abrasive, feedback-drenched side of the genre.

Dual-vocalist sludge metal/hardcore featuring Andrea Russi and Alyce H. Smith up front. A punishing addition to Houston's heavy underground.

Dallas's Construction Sports are a genre-bending experiment in extremity, hurling death metal, grindcore, sludge, and power metal into chaotic collision in one of Texas's most unpredictable and adventurous heavy acts.

San Antonio doom/sludge band that buries listeners under slow, crushing riffs and a suffocating low-end. Their bleak sonic weight reflects the heaviest strains of Southern sludge.

San Antonio trio fusing black metal's cold menace with the suffocating weight of doom and sludge. Their music moves with deliberate malice, rooted deep in the South Texas underground.

Heavy Sludge / Stoner Metal from Dallas.

Austin crust/sludge outfit Cross Builder drag heavy, corroded riffs through a punk-rooted framework, trading in the grimy intersection of crust punk nihilism and sludge metal density.

San Antonio doom and sludge metal band wallowing in the slow, oppressive heaviness that Texas's extreme underground does so well. Their music is deliberately paced and emotionally bleak.

Dallas sludge outfit Cryowitch drag listeners through slow, tar-thick riffs soaked in Southern weight and occult menace. Their music crawls forward with deliberate, suffocating heaviness.

Hailing from the remote West Texas desert town of Marfa, Crystal Deth craft slow, oppressive sludge metal that mirrors the barren landscape around them. Their sound is as desolate and crushing as the Chihuahuan Desert.

Austin sludge metal band immersed in feedback-drenched heaviness and a suffocating slow-burn intensity. Curse the Heavens drags listeners through thick, tar-slow riffs rooted in the Texas heavy underground.

Dallas doom and sludge metal band anchored in crushing mid-paced heaviness and a dark, suffocating atmosphere. Cynical delivers the kind of slow, heavy punishment that defines Texas sludge.