Austin black-death metal band drawing from the sinister traditions of both genres to produce dark, menacing extreme metal. They're part of Austin's growing underground metal community pushing past the city's rock reputation.

Dallas sludge outfit Cryowitch drag listeners through slow, tar-thick riffs soaked in Southern weight and occult menace. Their music crawls forward with deliberate, suffocating heaviness.

Austin heavy psych/proto-metal. Vintage-sounding riffs with a modern edge.

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.

Suffocating Doom Metal, Ambient out of Texas.

Depressive black metal project from Madisonville, Texas operating in the raw, introspective tradition of the DSBM underground, built around themes of isolation and personal suffering. The band represents a rare outpost of the subgenre in the East Texas metal landscape.

Gulf Coast grindcore featuring Insect Warfare drummer Frank Faerman.

Hailing from the remote West Texas desert town of Marfa, Crystal Deth craft slow, oppressive sludge metal that mirrors the barren landscape around them. Their sound is as desolate and crushing as the Chihuahuan Desert.