Explore Texas Metal
Featured Album
Blood Money (2026)
Featured Heavy Metal / NWOTHM Album
Hell To Pay (2016)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Shame On Me (Deluxe Edition) (2024)
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Browse Texas Metal Bands
219 bands found
Houston thrash/doom/death metal crossover act formed in 2018, drawing from three distinct traditions of extremity to craft a dense, shifting sound rooted in the Texas underground.
Austin death metal outfit Sigil have been grinding out punishing, riff-forward heaviness since 2015, drawing on the city's underground tradition of brutal, no-frills extremity.
Heavy Brutal Death Metal / Deathcore from Brownsville.
Dallas outfit Sik have been blending groove metal's locking rhythmic punch with the fuzz-heavy swagger of stoner metal since 2012, channeling the hard-edged heaviness that has long defined the Texas underground.
Houston crossover thrash veterans Sik Mentality trace their origins back to 1987, making them one of the longer-running acts in the Texas extreme metal underground, delivering the genre's raw blend of hardcore intensity and thrash aggression across decades.
Devastating Melodic Death Metal / Metalcore (early); Deathcore (later) from San Antonio.
Hailing from Venus, Texas, Silent Deep Ocean arrived in 2024 with a sound rooted in the slow suffocation of doom and the cold grandeur of gothic metal, building a world of dense atmosphere somewhere between grief and subterranean dread.
Furious Thrash Metal from Dallas.
Intense Metalcore from Fort Worth.
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