Active off and on since 1999. One of Austin's earlier sludge/stoner acts, predating much of the city's current heavy scene.

Austin's Egypt trades in sludge and stoner metal with a Texas-sized thickness, formed in 2009 in a city whose creative underground has always made room for bands willing to slow down and get filthy.

Suffocating Sludge / Doom Metal out of Texas.

Devastating Deathcore from San Antonio.

Austin's Esclavo — Spanish for "slave" — crawls through the sludge and doom underground with the heavy, chain-dragging gait implied by its name. Since 2010 the band has cultivated a sound rooted in the slow, suffocating tradition of Southern sludge, earning its place in a city with a rich history of underground heaviness.