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Tadadada (2021)
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Welcome To Doomsday EP (2021)
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Amigos, Amigos (2020)
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Heavy Thrash / Death Metal / Metalcore from Lubbock.
Dynamic Metalcore / Groove Metal out of Texas.
Razor-sharp Hard Rock / Thrash Metal out of Texas.
Vicious Death / Thrash Metal (early); Thrash Metal / Grindcore (later) from Houston.
Austin thrash dealers who have been delivering riff-driven punishment since 2018, channeling the Bay Area's bay-area fury through a distinctly Texas lens.
San Antonio's Life Cycles crash hardcore's urgency headlong into crossover thrash's pit-wrecking rhythms, keeping the Alamo City's extreme scene loud and unruly since 2015.
Fort Worth's Life of Scars have been tearing through death-thrash hybrids since 2018, their music carrying the hard-edged industrial grit of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex's working underground.
Intense Melodic Groove Metal / Metalcore from Fort Worth.
Razor-sharp Thrash / Groove Metal from Rio Grande Valley.
Blistering Melodic Thrash Metal / Metalcore from Houston.
Whiskey-soaked Southern / Groove Metal from Dallas/Newcastle.
Ripping Thrash / Death Metal from Spring/Houston.
Fort Worth's Magnus build technical progressive metal with a Texas sense of scale — sprawling, precise, and unafraid of complexity. Since 2010 they've pushed the boundaries of what progressive metal can sound like in the Lone Star underground.
Ferocious Melodic Death / Thrash Metal from Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington.
Ferocious Thrash Metal from Houston.
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