Ripping Speed / Thrash Metal from Lubbock.

Intense Heavy Metal / Hard Rock out of Texas.

Denton, Texas's Trap Lord barrel through crossover thrash and hardcore with reckless abandon — fast, ugly, and deliberately obnoxious, thriving in the fertile DIY scene of Denton's college-town underground since 2017.

Blistering Death / Thrash Metal from Framingham, Massachusetts (early); Austin, Texas (later).

Bestial war metal from West Texas. Demo released through Nuclear War Now! Productions, debut full-length on Transcending Obscurity Records.

World War Metal from Austin featuring members of Imprecation and Morbosidad. Debut full-length Commandoccult released 2022 on Godz Ov War Productions.

Austin's Trenchant deal in blackened death metal of the uncompromising variety — dense, caustic, and unrelenting since their 2018 formation. Their approach fuses the atmospherics of raw black metal with the brute physicality of death metal, making them a notable presence on the Texas extreme underground scene.

Scorching Atmospheric Black Metal / Ambient from Texas (early); Baltimore, Maryland (later).

Austin black metal act Triacanthos formed in 2019, operating within a Texas scene that has quietly built a reputation for serious, unadorned extreme metal. Their name — shared with a thorned plant genus — suggests a project drawn to the jagged and unyielding, consistent with the raw aesthetic of the style.