Blistering Metalcore / Thrash Metal from Fort Worth.

Ruthless Slam / Brutal Death Metal out of Texas.

Doom/death collective formed during the pandemic from ex-members of Azoth, Shitstorm, and Drainbow. Signed to Everlasting Spew Records.

Austin's Voided formed in 2022 playing post-black metal, a style that takes the genre's foundational harshness and opens it outward — longer structures, more dynamic range, and an emotional register that pushes beyond pure aggression. Austin's music scene has an adventurous streak even in its metal corner, and Voided reflect that spirit, building music with room to breathe inside the intensity. Their Bandcamp handle "voided666" balances the post-metal expansiveness with a knowing nod to black metal's rawer roots.

Bryan, Texas's Voidslime have been at it since 2017, building a catalog rooted in psychedelic doom metal — slow, narcotic riffs dissolving into lysergic haze before recongealing into something crushingly heavy. The psychedelic element isn't decorative; it fundamentally warps the doom formula, introducing detours into droning, meditative passages that make the eventual heaviness land harder. One of the more distinctive voices in the Texas heavy underground.

Ruthless Slam / Brutal Death Metal from San Antonio.

Colossal Stoner / Doom Metal / Rock out of Texas.

Votan has been channeling epic black metal out of Corpus Christi, Texas since 2016, drawing on the mythological resonance of the Mesoamerican deity their name invokes. The South Texas coastal setting is an unlikely crucible for this kind of sweeping, grandiose black metal, which makes the project's ambitions feel more singular. Their compositions reach for the kind of mythic grandeur associated with European epic black metal while remaining rooted in their own cultural context.

Holy Terror-style crossover thrash from Dallas.