Massive Doom Metal out of Texas.

Experimental atmospheric metal from Fort Worth. Early material explored avant-garde thrash territory. Releases on Visceral Circuitry Records.

Savage Avant-garde Death Metal from Dallas, Texas / Brooklyn, New York City, New York.

Ripping Blackened Death Metal from Mission.

Unity TX are a Dallas heavy band founded in 2014, known for merging hardcore intensity with rap metal, nu metal bounce, industrial tones, and hip-hop rhythmic language. Vocalist Jay Webster's delivery is central to the band's identity, shifting between shouted aggression, rhythmic flow, and confrontational hooks. Early releases such as The Besides and Madboy introduced a hybrid style that felt connected to hardcore shows while refusing to stay inside traditional hardcore boundaries. HELLWAY and Ferality pushed the sound wider, bringing heavier production, trap-influenced cadences, electronic accents, and breakdowns built for physical live response. The band's songs often deal with pressure, anger, identity, and survival, but the presentation is kinetic rather than static, using groove as much as speed. Later EPs and singles continued to sharpen that crossover, placing Unity TX among the more visible modern acts reconnecting nu metal's rhythmic aggression with hardcore's community-driven force. Their music is heavy, blunt, and built around movement.

Genre-blending metal/rap/hardcore. Signed to Pure Noise Records.

Mysterious one-man cosmic death metal entity on Blood Harvest Records. Sci-fi synths and brutal riffs collide — no one since Nocturnus has embraced keyboards in death metal quite like this.

Heavy Brutal Death Metal out of Texas.

Fort Worth's Unraveler pull from melodic death metal's emotional sweep and groove metal's pummeling mid-tempo stomp, a combination that's become their signature since forming in 2012. They're one of the more textured acts in the DFW heavy music scene.