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Texas Metal Index's database shows ZZ Top booked for 14 upcoming shows — nearly three times more than any other Texas touring act currently indexed, out of 57 total shows across the state's 16 most active bands.
Hell's Heroes 2027 locks in a stacked Houston lineup, Vivian Campbell shares a tough health update, and new music from Mystic Prophecy, Wolf, and Floor Jansen gives us an excuse to spotlight Texas's underrated black metal and NWOTHM underground.
From Abbath's two-minute festival walkoff to Anthrax's Scott Ian admitting he was wrong about firing Joey Belladonna, this week's national metal news is all about lineup drama and accountability — themes Texas's black metal, stoner doom, and hardcore crossover scenes know well.
From Dee Snider's Ozzy feud to CKY's posthumous Brent Hinds tribute and a bitter Death/Massacre falling-out, this week's national metal headlines all trace back to legacy, credit, and memory — themes Texas's death metal, doom, and crossover thrash scenes know intimately.
From Johnny Spreadsheets' latest DIY survival tip to Ritchie Blackmore's shock Deep Purple reunion, this week's headlines are all about what it costs to keep touring — and Texas's doom, NWOTHM, and death metal scenes know that math better than anyone.
Jay Buchanan's Storyteller tour opens in Houston, a UFO tribute lineup rolls through San Antonio, and a heavyweight Eyehategod/BL'AST! run maps straight onto Texas's crossover thrash and death metal underground.
Houston leads Texas with 293 bands in Texas Metal Index's database, but as of 2026-08-11 it shows only 6 upcoming shows — fewer than Austin and Dallas, which each list 9 despite smaller band counts.
This week's national metal headlines — a hardcore vocalist's passing, a new Steelheart/In Flames collaboration, and Rose Tattoo's next album — all map back onto Texas's death metal, NWOTHM, hardcore, and stoner doom underground.
This week's national metal headlines — from Cro-Mags' Age of Quarrel reissue to YOB's studio plans and a slam death metal Pee-Wee Herman video — map directly onto Texas's crossover thrash, doom, death metal, and metalcore underground.
Glenn Hughes's retirement, Accept's all-star tribute album, and The Kovenant's long-awaited comeback anchor this week's national metal news — we connect it all to Texas's heavy metal, black metal, and hardcore underground.
From Slipknot's Sid Wilson fallout to Fear Factory's Terminator-timed single and John Carpenter's new horror-metal release, we connect this week's national headlines back to Texas's industrial, death metal, and hardcore scenes.
Pepper Keenan's tribute to Reed Mullin, Rick Rozz's death metal origin story, and a wave of touring headaches this week connect back to Texas's own hardcore, death metal, and NWOTHM revival scenes.
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