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Pretty When You Break (2026)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Three Sides of One (2022)
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Featured Hardcore Punk Album
Definition (1992)
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Lubbock's Heavens Final War have been fusing hardcore's rage with thrash metal's technical attack since 2015, creating a confrontational sound that fits right in with West Texas's no-nonsense ethos. Their crossover energy is blunt and unapologetic.
Houston newcomers Held in Orbit blend melodic heavy metal hooks with the angular punch of metalcore, arriving in 2023 with a sound that orbits the line between anthem and aggression. Their songs carry the epic sweep of classic metal filtered through a contemporary lens.
Female-fronted symphonic power metal in the European tradition. Features vocalist Chelsea Knaack, formerly of DesDemon.
Dallas's Hell Goat plants Southern metal's flag deep in Texas soil, churning out sludge-laced, groove-heavy riffs drenched in heat and diesel. Formed in 2016, they carry the slow-burning menace of the Lone Star underground with deliberate, swaggering weight.
Mechanical Industrial Metal from Dallas.
Blasphemous Raw Black Metal out of Texas.
Relentless Thrash / Groove Metal from Weslaco.
From the southernmost edge of Texas, McAllen's Hellbrood has served up raw black metal since 2013, carving out an unlikely but genuine outpost for the genre in the Rio Grande Valley. Their sound is bleak, stripped, and borders-defying.
Crushing Heavy / Groove Metal / Hard Rock out of Texas.
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