San Antonio's LaSanche have been forging black/death metal in the San Antonio underground since 2017, fusing the genre's most aggressive elements into something that reflects Texas' fierce and uncompromising spirit. They're one of the Alamo City's most notable extreme metal exports.

Arlington, Texas' Last Chapter have spent over a decade crafting slow, crushing doom metal that unfolds with the inevitability their name implies. Since 2010 they've been a quiet but enduring presence in the DFW heavy underground.

Austin thrash dealers who have been delivering riff-driven punishment since 2018, channeling the Bay Area's bay-area fury through a distinctly Texas lens.

Houston sludge outfit Lavos drag their riffs through the bayou, piling on layers of feedback and distortion with the swampy menace that only Texas can fully deliver.

Texas black metal project Lay Down and Rot embodies their name fully — unornamented, suffocating darkness delivered with the kind of bleak conviction that the lone star state's underground does best.

Crushing Sludge Metal from San Antonio.

Fantasy-themed speed metal rippers forged in Houston's heavy underground. Released on Cease and Destroy Records.

Venomous Depressive Black Metal from Houston.

Heavy Heavy Metal from Fort Worth.