Blazing Heavy / Power Metal from Houston.

Devastating Progressive Death Metal from San Antonio.

Relentless Post-Black Metal from Mansfield, Connecticut /.

Austin classic heavy rock in the vein of early Sabbath and Zeppelin. Big riffs, bigger hooks.

Corpus Christi, Texas's Scourgery has been dealing in brutal death metal since 2017 with the kind of suffocating density that the Gulf Coast heat seems to produce naturally. Their music is defined by inhuman gutturals, chromatic guitar work that shifts between slab-like grooves and technical spiral dives, and percussion that operates at the threshold of physical endurance. South Texas brutal death has its own character — isolated, siege-like, built to outlast comfort — and Scourgery embodies that without compromise.

Punishing Brutal Death Metal from Eagle Lake.

Austin noise rock pioneers. David Yow and David Wm. Sims went on to form The Jesus Lizard.

Houston's Screamer have been flying the flag for traditional heavy metal since 2011, drawing from the same well as the NWOBHM pioneers and early American metal acts who turned amplification into something anthemic and defiant. Their songs lead with guitar melodies that have actual hooks — memorable, fist-raising moments built for stages in sweaty clubs — delivered with a vocalist whose range tips the cap to the genre's golden era. Houston's metal underground is vast and varied, and Screamer represent its most classically inclined corner.

Anthemic traditional heavy metal with a historical bent. Signed to Germany's Golden Core/ZYX Records. Have shared stages with Saxon, Voivod, Manilla Road, and Hammerfall.