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Pretty When You Break (2026)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Three Sides of One (2022)
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Definition (1992)
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Dallas heavy metal unit Deathrider has been carrying the lone star flag for classic metal since 2012, delivering punishing riffs with a nod toward the raw power of the NWOBHM and its American descendants. Texas grit, old-school fire.
Razor-sharp Thrash Metal from Austin.
Mineral Wells, Texas groove/thrash outfit Debri has been leaving a trail of heavy riff wreckage across the state since 2019, blending the neck-snapping punch of groove metal with thrash's natural velocity. Texas-sized attitude, small-town ferocity.
From the Texas-Mexico border city of Laredo, Decayed Mutilation has been unleashing a death/black/thrash hybrid since 2016 that carries the ferocity of a scene forged on the cultural edge of two countries. Border-town extremity with something to prove.
Dallas death metal unit Decomposed channel the dense, murky brutality of early American death metal with a Texas-sized heaviness. Since 2020 they've been stacking slabs of guttural riffage in the tradition of the genre's most uncompromising forebears.
Old school death/doom in the Autopsy and Incantation tradition. Started as a solo project of prolific multi-band mastermind Elektrokutioner (Encoffination, Father Befouled).
Corpus Christi brutal death metal act Decrepited bring the full weight of South Texas's extreme metal underground to bear, crafting dense, gore-drenched brutality since 2019. A coastal city's answer to the genre's most uncompromising demands.
Waco's Deep Rot Asphyxiation emerged in 2025 as one of Texas's newest entries in brutal deathcore, stacking suffocating breakdowns and guttural extremity from the jump.
Raw Black Metal out of Texas.
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