Explore Texas Metal
Featured Album
Blood Money (2026)
Featured Heavy Metal / NWOTHM Album
Hell To Pay (2016)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Featured Metalcore Album
Shame On Me (Deluxe Edition) (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Browse Texas Metal Bands
160 bands found
Fort Worth heavy metal band bringing classic metal sensibility and hook-driven songwriting to the North Texas scene. Their approach is rooted in the genre's traditional values — riffs, energy, and memorable choruses.
Devastating Deathcore from Kermit/Odessa.
Austin death metal and grindcore band delivering short, brutal material with Texas underground credibility. Fast, loud, and uncompromising, they've been a fixture of the Austin extreme metal community.
Texas slam death metal project wallowing in the subgenre's most extreme end — bowel-deep gutturals, grinding rhythms, and pure sonic grotesquerie. Strictly underground, strictly brutal.
Houston metalcore and progressive death metal act with real compositional range, balancing crushing heaviness against melodic and technical passages. They carry the ambition Houston's heavy music scene has cultivated for decades.
San Antonio trio fusing black metal's cold menace with the suffocating weight of doom and sludge. Their music moves with deliberate malice, rooted deep in the South Texas underground.
Houston act colliding death metal ferocity with grinding velocity and unexpected power metal dynamics. An unlikely but punishing combination drawn from the deep well of Houston's extreme music scene.
Ithaca, Texas grindcore project delivering short, violent blasts of noise-laced extremity. Creator|Destroyer operates in the tradition of grind that sees brevity as a weapon.
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.
Enter the Inferno
View all threads →Frequently asked questions
Texas Metal Index indexes hundreds of Texas heavy metal bands across every subgenre — death metal, black metal, thrash metal, doom metal, metalcore, hardcore punk, grindcore, sludge, stoner metal, and more. Browse heavy metal bands by genre, city, or state.
Yes — browse Texas death metal bands in our index. Filter by genre to find death metal, technical death metal, and melodic death metal bands. We also index black metal, thrash metal, doom metal, and all heavy metal bands.
Use the genre filter to browse Texas black metal bands. We index black metal, atmospheric black metal, and related subgenres alongside death metal, thrash metal, doom metal, and all heavy metal bands.
Browse our index for Texas thrash metal bands. Filter by genre to discover thrash metal, crossover thrash, and speed metal bands. Our index covers all heavy metal bands including death metal, black metal, doom, and metalcore.
Yes — we index metalcore bands, doom metal bands, and every heavy metal subgenre. Browse Texas metalcore, doom metal, sludge metal, stoner metal, progressive metal, power metal, and more.
Yes — browse Texas hardcore punk bands alongside heavy metal bands. We cover hardcore punk, crust punk, D-beat, grindcore, metalcore, and all heavy music subgenres.
Filter by city and state to find heavy metal bands near you. Each band page includes streaming links, genre tags, and upcoming metal concerts. Discover death metal, black metal, thrash, doom, and all heavy metal bands in your area.
Visit our shows page for Texas metal concerts — death metal shows, black metal concerts, thrash metal shows, doom concerts, and all heavy metal events. Updated daily with ticket links from Ticketmaster and SeatGeek.
Texas Metal Index is an index of Texas heavy metal bands — death metal, black metal, thrash metal, doom metal, metalcore, hardcore punk, and all heavy music. Browse bands by genre, find metal concerts near you, and discover the Texas metal scene.