Brutal Symphonic Deathcore from Pennsylvania /.

Celestial Theory is a symphonic melodic death metal band from Mercedes, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley. They fuse death metal's brutality with melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility and orchestral arrangements to create layered, cinematic compositions.

Austin's Empyre graft symphonic ambition onto black metal's hostility, a combination that feels at home in a city where experimental extremity is never far from center stage.

Theatrical symphonic extreme metal conceived by frontman Dennis Dorsett. Featured in the documentaries 'Heavy in Houston' and 'Heavier in Houston.' Have shared stages with Nile, Deicide, and Carach Angren.

Female-fronted symphonic power metal in the European tradition. Features vocalist Chelsea Knaack, formerly of DesDemon.

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.

Epic Symphonic Power Metal from San Benito.

Intricate Symphonic / Progressive Metal out of Texas.

Houston's Orisonata blend symphonic grandeur with progressive metal's structural complexity, producing music that swings between sweeping orchestral passages and intricate instrumentation. They represent a more ambitious, cinematic strain of the Texas metal underground.

San Antonio's Profundum fuse symphonic grandeur with the savagery of death and black metal, creating music that is simultaneously cinematic and ferocious. Active since 2016, they weave orchestral elements into the fabric of extreme metal without softening its edges, letting the two impulses collide and reinforce each other. As one of Texas's few bands working in symphonic death-black territory, they occupy a distinctive niche in the state's predominantly raw and stripped-down extreme metal underground.

Houston, Texas symphonic death metal band formed in 2023, pairing orchestral grandeur with death metal brutality in a style that reflects the ambitious scope of bands like Septicflesh and Fleshgod Apocalypse.

Symphonic/funeral doom metal from San Antonio.

Heavy Symphonic / Melodic Death Metal from Houston.

Twilight Symphony is an El Paso, Texas symphonic progressive metal band formed in 2021, blending orchestral arrangements with intricate progressive metal composition in a city that sits at the crossroads of the American Southwest and northern Mexico.