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Dial Tone (Redial) (2024)
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Valac (2023)
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Houston's Punishment Due have been playing straightforward thrash metal since 2012, drawing from the classic Bay Area tradition with riff-forward aggression and no detours into crossover or melodic territory. They represent the Houston underground's allegiance to the thrash fundamentals.
Houston thrash metal band formed in 2005, operating in the city's historically fertile extreme metal underground with the straightforward speed and aggression that defines the Texas approach to the genre.
Ripping Thrash / Groove Metal out of Texas.
Mean Heavy / Groove Metal from Abilene.
Laredo, Texas — a border city with its own fierce cultural identity — is home to Requiem for Redemption, a band that has been fusing thrash and deathcore with death metal heaviness since 2011. Their South Texas roots give their extreme metal an intensity shaped by a region underrepresented in the national metal conversation. Border-country brutality with crossover appeal.
Vicious Thrash Metal / Crossover from Dallas.
Furious Thrash Metal from Fort Worth.
Thrash-tinged heavy metal from San Antonio.
Dallas thrash metal with blistering technical riffs. Mike Scaccia was one of Texas's greatest guitarists.
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