Dirty Rotten Imbeciles. Houston crossover thrash legends who helped define the genre.

Groove metal from Dallas. Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul post-Pantera project.

Ferocious Thrash Metal out of Texas.

Bryan, Texas's Dark Altar have been consecrating blackened death metal rituals since 2015, fusing the grim atmosphere of black metal with death metal's crushing low-end brutality. A Texas underground institution with a genuinely menacing presence.

Ferocious Thrash / Groove Metal from Austin.

Austin's Dead Haven have been grinding out death/thrash metal since 2013, fusing the precision of thrash with death metal's visceral extremity in a city better known for its live music than its extreme underground. They're the gritty counterpoint to the capital's polished scene.

Houston thrash with a sludgy, punky edge. Cult classics of the late-80s Texas scene.

Dallas' Dead Rising have been a fixture of the North Texas extreme underground since 2016, churning out death metal and grindcore that owes as much to blast-beat brutality as to the relentless D/FW scene that surrounds them. Fast, violent, and unapologetically extreme.

Seguin, Texas's Deadly Mass bring death metal and hardcore together with the direct, no-wasted-motion approach of a band formed in 2023 with something to prove. The Hill Country may be known for country music, but Deadly Mass are here to correct that narrative.

San Antonio thrash act Deadpool have been tearing through South Texas since 2011 with a no-frills approach rooted in classic Bay Area and German thrash. Loud, fast, and proudly unsubtle.

Dallas's Deadtooth throw crossover thrash, death metal, and grindcore into a blender and dare you to keep up — messy, fast, and completely uninterested in making it easy on the listener. Since 2009, they've been one of the DFW underground's most chaotically reliable exports.

Fierce Groove Metal / Metalcore from Austin.

Austin's Death Ritual have been conducting thrash metal ceremonies in the Texas underground since 2016, favoring blunt-force riffing and a no-nonsense approach that honors the genre's blue-collar roots. Loud, fast, and Texas-proud.

San Antonio's Death Tripper deal in pure high-octane speed and thrash metal — the kind that sounds like it was written on a stretch of empty Texas highway at 3 a.m. with no destination in mind. They've been burning rubber since 2011.

Razor-sharp Thrash Metal from Austin.