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The Withering Lands (2024)
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Croaking For Entrails (2017)
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Thy Entity of Evil (2022)
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El Paso's Core Fire bring heavy metal and thrash metal together from the Texas-New Mexico border, forging a sound shaped by the city's isolated desert geography and its position between two major metal scenes. Their music carries the no-frills directness of a border town with something to prove.
Dallas groove and thrash metal act fusing the rhythmic chug of groove with thrash's forward momentum. Creeper TX reflects the DFW area's long-running appetite for heavy music with commercial muscle and underground credibility.
Dallas death metal with a crushing old-school sound. Multiple releases on MNRK Heavy.
Ferocious Heavy / Thrash Metal from Houston.
Houston's Cremator blend classic heavy metal hooks with thrash metal aggression in the tradition of Texas's deep and diverse metal scene. They bring the swagger and crunch of the Lone Star underground to every performance.
Humble, Texas's Criminally Insane bring death/thrash aggression from the Houston suburbs with a sound built on blunt force riffing and furious tempo shifts. They are a product of the deep Texas underground that values intensity above all.
Intense Southern / Groove Metal / Metalcore from Austin.
West Texas extreme metal act blending death, black, thrash, and grindcore into an uncompromising assault. Their debut Throne of Apathy packed 10 tracks into 24 minutes of relentless brutality.
Humble, Texas death-thrash band delivering the kind of punishing riff-heavy metal that has long thrived in the Houston-area underground. Their music is aggressive, direct, and unashamedly brutal.
Sugar Land, Texas' Cryptic carve out a niche in the Houston area underground with death/thrash that channels the aggressive, riff-forward energy of the region's long metal tradition. Their sound is fast, hot, and unforgiving.
Razor-sharp Melodic Thrash Metal out of Texas.
Razor-sharp Melodic Death / Thrash Metal from Dallas.
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.
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