Furious Industrial / Thrash Metal from Hernando, Mississippi (early); El Paso, Texas (later).

Vicious Thrash Metal out of Texas.

Texas thrash/death metal. Underrated and vicious, part of the late-80s Texas thrash explosion.

Hailing from Santa Rosa in the Texas Hill Country, Devil Beheaded have been conjuring their blackened heavy/thrash assault since 2014. The band's sound sits at a nasty crossroads — the feral swagger of old-school thrash corrupted by the cold menace of black metal.

Relentless Progressive Power / Thrash Metal from El Paso.

Vicious Thrash Metal out of Texas.

Dark, grim black/thrash from Houston with crustpunk and doom influences. Released Under Grim Skies in 2022.

Vicious Death / Thrash Metal from Dallas.

Dallas's Discern arrived in 2023 with a death/thrash attack that slots naturally into the Texas tradition of technically sharp, aggressive metal. Young but purposeful, they represent a new generation picking up the thread of a scene that has always rewarded heaviness and precision.

Ferocious Technical Speed / Thrash Metal from Flower Mound/Austin.

Blistering Heavy / Thrash Metal from Houston.

Heavy Heavy / Groove Metal from Santa Fe.

San Antonio thrash metal act formed in 2013, Dysrupter brings a relentless, riff-driven attack that fits naturally into South Texas's long history of underground metal aggression. Blunt and uncompromising, they represent the city's ongoing contribution to American thrash.

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.