One of the bands that helped put Houston on the brutal death metal map in the late 90s. Spawned Shawn Whitaker's solo project Insidious Decrepancy. Reunited in 2022 after a decade-long hiatus.

Texas-based Virgin Bleeds operates in the most uncompromising corner of raw black metal — lo-fi production, abrasive compositions, and a complete indifference to accessibility. Active since 2019, the project favors corrosive atmosphere over polish, channeling the isolation and hostility that define the rawer end of the American black metal underground.

Ruthless Death Metal out of Texas.

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.