Converse, Texas's Esophagus Rot plies slam death metal with the porcine heaviness the subgenre demands — bowel-deep gutturals, caveman-slow breakdowns, and riffs designed to pulverize before they progress. Formed in 2020, the band stakes its claim in San Antonio's surrounding underground with pure, unadorned brutality.

Fort Worth's Espials von Lethe has practiced black metal since 2003, taking its name from Lethe — the river of forgetfulness in Greek mythology — and building music around themes of oblivion and dissolution. Two decades of underground activity have kept the project true to an austere, uncompromising vision.

San Antonio's Essence of Undeath emerged in 2021 wielding a corrosive blend of black and death metal forged in South Texas heat. Their blackened death attack is both ferocious and suffocating.

Ambitious Melodic Progressive Metal out of Texas.

Epic heavy metal in the Manilla Road tradition. Soaring and triumphant.

Frigid Black Metal from Mission.

Soaring Progressive Heavy / Power Metal out of Texas.

Venomous Black Metal out of Texas.

Brutal Heavy Metal (early); Thrash / Death Metal (later) from Arlington.