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Featured Album
Shame On Me (2022)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Crossover - Millennium Edition (2010)
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Featured Heavy Metal / NWOTHM Album
Strike A Nerve (2022)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
La Grange (From "RAW: That Little Ol' Band From Texas" Original Soundtrack) (2022)
05/21 @ North Charleston Coliseum, North Charleston
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From Plainview in the Texas Panhandle, Gates of Sodom have been battering out old-school death metal since 2020, drawing on the genre's foundational filth and brutality without reinventing the wheel. Uncompromisingly blunt and committed to the craft.
Houston's Geezer drags industrial machinery through sludge-coated swamps, combining the grimy weight of southern metal with corroded, mechanized aggression. Formed in 2013, their sound is as much rust and grinding gears as it is riffs.
Houston's Genital Grinder have been a fixture of the Texas death metal underground since 2002, a two-decade run that puts them among the genre's more resilient local acts. Brutal by name and by nature.
Crushing Grindcore / Death Metal out of Texas.
San Angelo, Texas deathcore and death metal act Ghaul applies the genre's slammed grooves and blast-heavy assault to a West Texas context — isolation, aggression, and brutality in equal measure. They've been carving out their niche since 2018.
Towering Stoner / Doom Metal from Houston.
Plano's Giant of the Mountain fuse progressive ambition with the raw extremity of black and death metal, building sprawling, technically demanding compositions that refuse to settle into any single genre. Their work since 2010 rewards patience and repeated listening.
Texas-based GK approach progressive metal as solo craftsmanship, sculpting detailed instrumental and compositional work that prioritizes mood and structure over genre convention. A quietly prolific presence in the Lone Star underground since 2017.
Genre-defying Austin trio blending post-metal, black metal, sludge, and shoegaze. Signed to Pelagic Records.
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