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.

Mineral Wells, Texas groove/thrash outfit Debri has been leaving a trail of heavy riff wreckage across the state since 2019, blending the neck-snapping punch of groove metal with thrash's natural velocity. Texas-sized attitude, small-town ferocity.

From the Texas-Mexico border city of Laredo, Decayed Mutilation has been unleashing a death/black/thrash hybrid since 2016 that carries the ferocity of a scene forged on the cultural edge of two countries. Border-town extremity with something to prove.

Savage Brutal Death Metal / Grindcore from Mesquite, Texas (early); Kansas City, Missouri (later).