Out of Longview, Texas, Monthra have been fusing groove and thrash metal since 2017 with the kind of knuckle-dragging momentum and snapping riff patterns that fit the East Texas industrial corridor they come from.

Moonlight Butchery is a San Antonio, Texas black metal act formed in 2014, representing the Lone Star underground's longstanding commitment to extreme metal. Their name suggests a violent, visceral take on the genre, uninterested in atmospheric subtlety.

Epic Symphonic Power Metal from San Benito.

Dallas black metal act Morbid Anal Fog have been operating on the provocative fringes of the underground since 2010, trafficking in the genre's most confrontational impulses with a name that announces their commitment to transgression upfront.

Ferocious Thrash Metal from Alice.

Longview, Texas act formed in 2014, stacking technical death metal intricacy on top of a deathcore framework for a sound that is simultaneously punishing and precisely executed. They represent the East Texas underground's willingness to push extremity beyond genre borders.

Blistering Thrash Metal from Plano.

Black/death metal from Houston. One of the most important bands in the Texas extreme underground.

Houston black/death metal. Raw South American-influenced extremity.