Houston thrash with a sludgy, punky edge. Cult classics of the late-80s Texas scene.

Dallas's Dead Industry fuse industrial metal's cold mechanical precision with death metal's organic brutality, crafting something machine-like and monstrous from the heart of North Texas since 2015. Their sound is as relentless as the city's sprawl.

Hailing from the wide, isolated stretches of West Texas, Dead of Night channel melodic black metal into something windswept and desolate, fitting for the Midessa landscape that shaped them. Cold harmonics and raw atmosphere define their approach.

Dallas' Dead Rising have been a fixture of the North Texas extreme underground since 2016, churning out death metal and grindcore that owes as much to blast-beat brutality as to the relentless D/FW scene that surrounds them. Fast, violent, and unapologetically extreme.

Houston's Dead Stuff wallow in sludge metal with the baked-in ugliness of the Gulf Coast petrochemical belt, thick with feedback and slow-burn hostility. Formed in 2022, they fit naturally into a city that has always had a deep well of heavy, unpretentious music.

Blackened sludge/doom metal with crust influences from Dallas.

Houston's Dead Trip have been grinding out uncompromising death metal since 2004, rooted in the Texas tradition of no-frills brutality and bone-dry aggression. Two decades in, they remain a fixture of the city's underground extreme music community.

Seguin, Texas's Deadly Mass bring death metal and hardcore together with the direct, no-wasted-motion approach of a band formed in 2023 with something to prove. The Hill Country may be known for country music, but Deadly Mass are here to correct that narrative.

San Antonio thrash act Deadpool have been tearing through South Texas since 2011 with a no-frills approach rooted in classic Bay Area and German thrash. Loud, fast, and proudly unsubtle.