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The Withering Lands (2024)
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Croaking For Entrails (2017)
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Featured Symphonic Metal Album
Thy Entity of Evil (2022)
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Thrash metal band from Austin, Texas, formed around 2021 and active in the city's heavy underground.
A Dallas sludge/thrash metal act, Barren Mind bring a crushed, heavy sound to Texas's fertile extreme metal landscape by combining the caustic weight of sludge with thrash aggression.
Denton, Texas heavy metal and punk outfit Barricade formed in 2021, blending the raw energy of punk with traditional metal riffing.
Houston, Texas progressive thrash/power metal band Basilisk was active from 1989 to 1991, releasing a demo and appearing on a 1990 Saturn Records compilation before disbanding.
Relentless Black / Death / Groove Metal / Grindcore from Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas (early); Austin, Texas (later).
A short-lived Houston thrash act from 1985 that quickly renamed themselves Crucial Surge after discovering a New York band already claimed the Battalion name.
Ferocious Crossover / Thrash Metal out of Texas.
Metallic hardcore from Austin.
Ferocious Speed / Thrash Metal out of Texas.
Jeff Tandy of black metal act Averse Sefira channeling D.R.I. and S.O.D. with two ex-Death of Millions members. On hold since 2017.
Black Speed from the Cemeteries of Texas. Influences: Motorhead, Venom, Bathory, early Slayer, Celtic Frost. On Goat Throne Records.
Dynamic Melodic Groove Metal, Metalcore from Houston.
Relentless Thrash / Groove Metal from Austin.
Thunderous Death / Groove Metal from Amarillo.
Vicious Thrash Metal / Crossover out of Texas.
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