Massive Epic Crust / Doom / Thrash Metal out of Texas.

Dallas thrashers Eldritch Rite deal in the occult end of thrash metal — tight, aggressive riffs with a ritualistic menace running through everything they do since forming in 2013.

Dallas's Eloi blend groove metal's hip-swinging heaviness with thrash's aggression, a combination that fits the Texas tradition of metal that wants to move the room as much as destroy it.

Progressive melodic death metal featuring Nick Brady and Ryan Cullins on guitars with influences ranging from technical death to melodic hooks. Self-released their debut EP in 2013.

Dallas death metal unit Empty Shell have been excavating brutality from the Texas underground since 2014, delivering pulverizing riff work with the no-frills directness the genre demands.

Dallas' End Times evolved from hardcore roots into a volatile blend of death metal, thrash, and hardcore crossover — the kind of band whose evolution mirrors the city's own heavy music scene expanding outward in every direction. Formed in 2010, they've grown harder and heavier with time.

Vicious Thrash Metal out of Texas.

Heavy Thrash / Death Metal out of Texas.

McAllen's thrash/death metal contingent, operating from deep in the Rio Grande Valley where the heat and isolation of the Texas borderlands fuel a relentless, suffocating sonic assault.

Brutal Heavy Metal (early); Thrash / Death Metal (later) from Arlington.

Arlington's Eternal Torment started in classic heavy metal territory before sharpening into thrash and death — a DFW band that has consistently raised the stakes of its own aggression since 2015.

Venomous Black Metal out of Texas.

Furious Heavy / Thrash Metal from San Antonio/Austin.

Houston's Evokation are a thrash metal outfit forged in 2016 with a clear debt to the old-school Bay Area and Teutonic traditions, filtered through the Texas heat. They traffic in fast, riff-forward aggression with shouted vocals and breakneck tempos that keep the spirit of classic thrash alive in the Bayou City underground.

San Antonio's Executioner bring crossover thrash energy to Texas's already ferocious underground, formed in 2019 with a sound that fuses hardcore's blunt impact with thrash metal's technical aggression. Part of a city with a long tradition in extreme music, they carry that legacy forward with short, punishing songs built for pit-ready mayhem.