Frigid Melodic Death / Black Metal from Houston.

Devastating Melodic Death Metal from San Antonio.

Houston's Day of Reckoning pull from progressive metalcore and groove metal in equal measure, a combination that suits the city's taste for technically accomplished but physically punishing music. Formed in 2015, they've developed a sound with enough forward momentum to keep pace with the state's most demanding stages.

Blasphemous Atmospheric Black Metal from Austin.

Coming out of Laredo on the Texas-Mexico border, Dead Albatross combine groove-laden rhythms with melodic death metal sensibility — a sound shaped as much by the region's gritty heat as by Scandinavian influences.

Ferocious Thrash / Groove Metal from Austin.

Austin's Dead Haven have been grinding out death/thrash metal since 2013, fusing the precision of thrash with death metal's visceral extremity in a city better known for its live music than its extreme underground. They're the gritty counterpoint to the capital's polished scene.

Houston thrash with a sludgy, punky edge. Cult classics of the late-80s Texas scene.

Dallas's Dead Industry fuse industrial metal's cold mechanical precision with death metal's organic brutality, crafting something machine-like and monstrous from the heart of North Texas since 2015. Their sound is as relentless as the city's sprawl.