Austin art-punk/post-hardcore. Explosive live shows and ambitious, genre-defying records.

1733 is a thrash metal band from Dallas, Texas, debuting in 2020 with a seven-track release featuring songs like "Osiris" and "Unhittable." The band plays sharp, riff-forward thrash metal with a focus on tight execution and mythological themes. They are part of the Dallas-Fort Worth area's thriving thrash metal revival.

1913 is a death metal and deathcore act from San Antonio, Texas, active since 2014. Their eight-track release features lowercase song titles like "peru," "more," and "americana" that hint at themes beyond typical genre fare. The band's name evokes historical weight, fitting for music that carries both brutality and gravity.

21 Acts of Manslaughter is a grindcore act from Eustace, Texas, releasing an eight-track blast in 2020 that includes covers of Celtic Frost's "Procreation of the Wicked" and Sepultura's "Troops of Doom." The choice of covers reveals a reverence for extreme metal's founding fathers alongside their own bursts of grinding fury. The band represents the unlikely but enduring presence of grindcore in rural East Texas.

Technical Progressive Rock / Metal from Austin, Texas / Nashville, Tennessee.

Punishing Grindcore from Houston.

Frigid Black Metal / Industrial from Weslaco.

Melodic metalcore with soaring choruses from East Texas.

Ferocious Industrial / Thrash / Groove Metal from Phoenix, Arizona (early); Austin, Texas (later).